SPIEF & BRICS (Update)
Thread updated to Second post, June 6th
BRICS Expert Forum at SPIEF: key speakers and highlights
One of the key events on the sidelines of the SPIEF 2024 was the BRICS expert forum moderated by Director General of Rossiya Segodnya, Sputnik’s parent media group, Dmitry Kiselev. Three panel sessions of the forum focused on BRICS’ goals in the multipolar world, as well as on ways to promote growth through cultural and economic partnerships.
Check out the forum’s highlights:
🔶Why does BRICS surpass G7 (https://t.me/geopolitics_live/25830)?
🔶Why does India need BRICS (https://t.me/geopolitics_live/25838)?
🔶How is BRICS different from the G7 (https://t.me/geopolitics_live/25847)?
🔶What is BRICS’ role in the international financial system (https://t.me/geopolitics_live/25850)?
BRICS forum: the creation of a discussion platform between the African Diamond Producers Association (ADPA) and BRICS+
Together we are force that cannot be ignored — ALROSA CEO Pavel Marinychev about BRICS countries
“BRICS is the institution where we can shape a common agenda, policy, and game rules to promote our interests around the world. Why? Because 35% (of global) GDP is what we represent together. <> The message I want to convey: together we are a force that cannot be ignored by anyone. Together we must shape the principles and rules of free trade worldwide,” he said at a thematic session at SPIEF 2024.
The main issue on the agenda was . Issues proposed for discussion at the additional platform:
🔹 fair distribution of value added;
🔹 attracting investments;
🔹 R&D;
🔹 harmonization of practices and knowledge transfer, etc.
🤝 Participants unanimously supported the creation of a new platform for dialogue. ADPA representatives noted that this issue should be brought to the organization’s meeting and reflected in the final documents.
📌 Watch the full recording of the “Development of Cooperation in the Diamond Industry among BRICS Countries” session here. (https://forumspb.com/en/programme/business-programme/131436/)
First post, June 5th
This thread will stay on top until the end of SPIEF. Here I will gather everything I find on BRICS at SPIEF. There is no organized information faucets around BRICS, so we will have to search and look and find it, until these guys organize. I don’t mind that they do not have a secretariat, but I really think they can have a combined information center.
BRICS Culture:
Philosophers, Sociologists, Media Figures Convene to Focus on BRICS Culture at SPIEF
The discussion will likely touch upon the issue of traditional values and the dangers posed by Western culture.
Sputnik comes to you live from the Saint-Petersburg International Economic Forum where Dmitry Kiselev – Director General of Rossiya Segodnya, Sputnik’s parent media group is moderating a discussion dubbed “The cultural basis of BRICS. Can BRICS become a common cultural market?”
Two years ago, BRICS Ministers of Culture signed a plan of cultural cooperation between member-states in order to preserve and popularize their cultural heritage.
One of Russia’s most influential philosophers, Alexander Dugin, will participate in the dialogue, as well as Konstantin Abramov, Director General of the Public opinion research foundation VCIOM, and other prominent experts.
This dialogue is endorsed by the Rossiya Segodnya Media Group and Xinhua News Agency.
More on Culture:
Crimean envoy urges BRICS nations to team up against West’s information warfare
ST. PETERSBURG, June 6. /TASS/. Permanent Representative of the Republic of Crimea to the Russian President Georgy Muradov has called on BRICS countries to jointly stand up against “information genocide” being committed by Western countries.
“I want to emphasize the inadmissibility of information genocide of countries and peoples. This is what the Western camp is doing. The West carries out genocide with regard to culture, sports and all events, encourages various kinds of sabotage. It can be countered only through joint efforts,” Muradov told a session focused on BRICS’ aims within the context of the new world order at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
Muradov noted that BRICS needs a common “research think tank,” bringing together journalists, analysts and other experts to work out strategies to help the organization grow, as well as to counter the negative influence of Western countries.
The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum takes place on June 5-8. This year’s theme is “The Formation of New Areas of Growth as the Cornerstone of a Multipolar World.” Scheduled events include meetings for small and medium-sized businesses, creative industries, the SPIEF Youth Day, as well as the Drug Security, SPIEF Academy and SPIEF Junior forums. SPIEF is organized by the Roscongress Foundation. TASS is the information partner of the event.
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On 8 June, the final day of SPIEF 2024, the BRICS Creative Business Forum will be held.
The distinctive nature of the BRICS Creative Business Forum lies in its focus on mutually beneficial cooperation in the creative industries among the BRICS countries, and this is reflected in the event programme.
The BRICS Creative Business Forum will be attended by art managers, designers, publishers, film producers, heads of media holdings, and IT industry leaders.
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Russia discusses de-dollarization in trade with number of Latin American countries at SPIEF.
Russia is discussing de-dollarization in trade with a number of Latin American countries, including Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, as well as with BRICS states, Alexander Shchetinin, the director of the Latin America Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, told Sputnik.
“We are negotiating business and banking structures to find the most acceptable forms of interaction, including national currencies and direct settlements,” he noted.
Speaking at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Shchetinin emphasized that various de-dollarization methods are considered, with a focus on developing cooperation.
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SPIEF sidelines: Russia may de-dollarize with Latino nations, BRICS
By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Agencies
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This occurs as St. Petersburg in Russia hosts the 27th edition of SPIEF from June 5-8, as the diplomat notes that types and forms can be different for the process of de-dollarization, but cooperation will be prioritized.
The director of the Latin America Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Alexander Shchetinin, relayed to Sputnik on Wednesday that de-dollarization is being discussed in trade between Russia and several Latin American countries such as Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, as well as several BRICS states.
On the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), Shchetinin said, “Here is the process of negotiations of business and banking structures … to find the most acceptable and convenient forms of interaction to ensure trade and economic ties between our countries. One of them is national currencies, the introduction of Mir [payment] cards, the introduction of direct settlements”.
This occurs as St. Petersburg in Russia hosts the 27th edition of SPIEF from June 5-8.
The diplomat noted that types and forms can be different for the process of de-dollarization, but cooperation will be prioritized.
“We have negotiations with many countries [in progress]. There are ideas for the introduction of alternative payment platforms… We have a number of other countries with which we maintain normal trade and economic ties: Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela,” he said, adding that “progress” is currently present in negotiations.
In April, Russia declared that its bilateral commerce with China had nearly fully transitioned away from the US currency, demonstrating the two nations’ determination to reduce their reliance on the US-led economic system.
According to Responsible Statecraft, aside from decreasing reliance on the Western-dominated global currency, these de-dollarization activities enable Russia and China to evade the numerous restrictions that now hinder Moscow from conducting business on the international market.
Russia and Iran have also integrated their financial systems while facing restrictions that limit their ability to transact with the West.
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