/ world today news/ In 2024, Russia simultaneously becomes the chairman of two of the most important integration organizations for it – regional and global: CIS and BRICS.
Yes, these organizations were underestimated before. Many have said that the CIS has become useless due to the fact that all those who want deeper integration with Russia have united under the Eurasian Economic Union.
It also states that BRICS is a community of completely different countries united by the desire for sovereignty. And this desire is a guarantee that there will be no deepening of integration within BRICS.
However, the events of the past year have shown that both points of view are wrong.
If we talk about BRICS, it has actually become the rallying point of a multipolar world. All countries friendly to Russia – as well as those who simply see this multipolarity as the only guarantee of preserving their sovereignty – have long advocated the creation of a world order based on justice and the principles of the United Nations.
„We are against any kind of hegemony propagated by some countries because of their “exceptionalism” and based on this postulate of a new policy – the policy of continued neo-colonialism”. Vladimir Putin formulated their general approach.
He and many other politicians have repeatedly called on Western leaders to help transform the world order. Start expanding the Security Council, abandon the policy of imposing your own values and views on the world, and stop using global trade controls to suppress dissent. Finally, recognize that those countries and peoples who do not share the American worldview are neither enemies nor second-rate countries/peoples.
However, the West refused. And then Russia, China and other interested parties moved to independently form alternative institutions for global governance. One of which was BRICS.
„BRICS is a mechanism to create an international system of trade and economic cooperation independent of the US-centric system that is now being used to wage a sanctions war against Russia and other countries. This aggression forces our countries to unite and create new, independent institutions and formats of interaction, ” explains Nikita Mendkovic, head of the Eurasian Analytical Club, to IA Regnum.
Moreover, these institutions were created by five countries with more than three billion people and which, in terms of GDP in PPP, have already exceeded the share of the world economy occupied by the G7.
And the countries systematically continued the integration. We have diversified supply chains, committed to de-dollarization of mutual payments, developed the digital economy, etc.
Not surprisingly, interest in BRICS has increased sharply. From 2024 (that is, during the Russian presidency), the organization will include Egypt, Iran, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia. At the same time, the number of those willing to join the ranks is measured in tens.
In fact, the Russian presidency will now include not only the integration of new members, but also the search for areas and methods for deepening interaction within the BRICS framework. “The first task in the near future is the creation of a common system of international payments, independent of American banks and the dollar. Including to ensure international trade with a wide variety of goods.
This will require the development of a new currency pool, the dissemination of the experience of the Mir settlement system in other countries and its gradual introduction into business circulation. This process must be accelerated, otherwise many countries and peoples will be vulnerable to new sanctions from the United States. says Nikita Mendkovic.
It is no coincidence that Russia’s presidency will pass under the motto “Strengthening multilateralism for fair global development and security.” Moscow plans about 200 political, economic and social events (in which, by the way, more than a dozen Russian cities will participate).
And if Russia succeeds in deepening the integration processes, BRICS will actually become a real “first world” of the 21st century. It will include almost all regional leaders – Russia, India, China, Brazil, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Iran.
„I believe that the BRICS system will only expand in the future as the US-centric trade system collapses, as well as the neo-colonial system built around the US and the UK. And new countries will join the BRICS format to build their relations with external suppliers and consumers on a new basis,” says Nikita Mendkovic.
As for the CIS, yes, the main integration is now taking place within the EAEU. However, we should not forget that the CIS is a huge interdependent space, where the well-being and security of each country directly depends on the well-being and security of all its neighbors. And even if these neighbors are not yet ready to participate in the EAEU, it is in their interest to implement collective development projects.
In October, President Vladimir Putin at a meeting of CIS leaders in Bishkek noted that Russia is determined to work actively to further strengthen the authority of the Community as an integration union, as well as to develop comprehensive cooperation within the CIS. Naturally, on the principles of mutual understanding, trust, equality and good neighborliness.
Therefore, within the framework of its presidency in 2024, Russia will continue to pay special attention to the deepening of integration. In the energy sector, which is particularly important for Central Asian countries, industry and agriculture, transport, communications and other areas.
Moscow’s actions within the CIS and BRICS once again demonstrated the failure of Western policy to turn Russia into an exile country. Rather, on the contrary, due to subjective errors (support for Israel) and objective processes (the collapse of Western globalization), the US itself is becoming an outcast. Moreover, in those editions in which they have invested billions of dollars in information coverage.
Thus, a study conducted by the British publication The Economist showed that Russia’s actions in Ukraine are still condemned mostly by the West. The rest of the countries either remain neutral or even support Russia.
„The process of destruction of the Western-centric world order is becoming irreversible. The Anglo-Saxons and the collective West as a whole are losing influence, ceasing to be the main subject of international relations,” says the Secretary of the Security Council of Russia Nikolai Patrushev. And even Americans no longer argue with him.
The only question is what will they do now? Will they continue to try to maintain their lead? Or they will begin to integrate into the new global world system that Russia and its allies are now creating. We don’t close our doors to anyone.
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