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Aug 24 2023 
At BRICS: The most inspiring speech: Xi Jinping
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday made a speech at the Closing Ceremony of the BRICS Business Forum 2023, which was read out by Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao.
Following is the full text of the speech:
Enhancing Solidarity and Cooperation To Overcome Risks and Challenges And Jointly Build a Better World
Your Excellency President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa,
Members of the… Continue reading
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Aug 24 2023 
Daily Chronicles
The Daily Chronicles are snippets of the most important news across the world for this and each day as it rolls in – as such, this thread is non-structured with the latest news on top.
Aug 28
France refuses to leave and supports military action in Niger.
PARIS, August 28. /TASS/. France is set to support any… Continue reading
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Aug 24 2023
BRICS1 on Day 3: New Members, Johannesburg II Declaration of the XV BRICS Summit
BRICS Leaders have reached consensus on the expansion guidelines of admission to BRICS. The following countries will be full members of BRICS with effect from 1 January 2024:
Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
Congratulations!
With its expansion, the GDP of BRICS is now 36% of global GDP and 47% of the world’s population.
BRICS… Continue reading
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Aug 23 2023 
BRICS2 on Day 2 – Nalendi Pandor; FM South Africa
She says the agreements on growth and expansion of BRICS are complete and we will know before the end of the Summit.
(And speaks about a tiny little hiccup in interpretation and sound management – oops, little it was not).
She says Dilma Rousseff is bringing innovative thinking.
Minister Pandor further expanded on the… Continue reading
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Aug 23 2023 
BRICS1 on Day 2: Plenary session
We don’t yet have what we came for. This is:
Who are the selected new BRICS members?
What are the arrangements for currency swaps?
What is the progress and future steps for a BRICS currency?But, we do have uplifting speeches and hope to get the rest during the course of the day. The South African Broadcasting… Continue reading
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Aug 22 2023 
Burkina Faso Aid Convoy reaches Niger
While BRICS is ongoing, the risk to the area of Niger has increased tremendously. Of course, the usual suspects could try to inflame this, in order to take media space from BRICS. We already see that every African thread is being unraveled and old fights are being blown into new with what is… Continue reading
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Aug 22 2023 
BRICS2 for day 1: Leaders have taken the podium for their addresses
Excellencies: Cyril Ramaphosa, Lula da Silva, Narendra Modi, Wang Wen Tau representing Xi Jinping, Dilma Roussef, Deputy President Paul Mashatile are present. (Where is Mr Lavrov?)
The moderator stated that the business community report will be heard first. Economics and currencies were discussed at a high level but it gets complex and we will have to… Continue reading
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Aug 22 2023 
BRICS1 for Day 1: All arrivals are in and the business forum kicked off
… only to devolve into a completely broken sound system with everyone talking over everyone else in different languages – a Tower of “Babble”.
This is an unbelievable and unforgivable snafu. What are we to think? Did someone just very badly screw up, or was there interference? I don’t know what to think but I am… Continue reading
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Aug 21 2023 
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Aug 21 2023 
Niger in jaws of US, France: War drums get louder as standofff continues
By Kimani Kahumbu and first posted at PressTV
As the political crisis in Niger enters its fourth week, both opposing sides are refusing to budge from their respective positions, setting the ground for potential civil war and external military intervention.
The crisis erupted following a military coup at the end of July, when the country’s presidential guard removed… Continue reading
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Aug 21 2023 
Xi Jinping on South African media on the eve of BRICS summit: “Sailing the Giant Ship of China-South Africa Friendship and Cooperation Toward Greater Success”
BEIJING, Aug. 21 A signed article by Chinese President Xi Jinping titled “Sailing the Giant Ship of China-South Africa Friendship and Cooperation Toward Greater Success” was published Monday on South African media as he is going to attend the 15th BRICS Summit in Johannesburg and pay a state visit to South Africa.
An English version of the… Continue reading
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Aug 21 2023 
FM Sergey Lavrov’s Article for South Africa’s Ubuntu Magazine: BRICS – Towards a Just World Order
https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1901054/
On the eve of the BRICS Summit, I would like to share with our dear readers my thoughts on the prospects for cooperation among the group of five countries in the current geopolitical context.
Tectonic shifts are taking place in the world today. The possibility of dominance by one country or even a small group of… Continue reading
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Aug 20 2023 
Our BRICS, our media
Although the official start date is the 22nd of August, the first sideline meeting in the current BRICS summit is off and running and this is on a business track. Media briefings at this time are ongoing.
The SA BRICS Business Council (SABBC) in collaboration with the Department of Trade Industry and Competition officially kicked off… Continue reading -
Aug 19 2023 
Antifascist congress in Minsk
Again we have to look at the root of Nazism and Fascism. And we did think that those are historical and have passed from our consciousness. The second Antifascist congress has just completed its work in Minsk. This is how their resolution starts:
“We, participants of the 2nd International Anti-Fascist Congress, state that today humanity once… Continue reading
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