/ world today news/ The attempts of the West to fail the summit meeting in St. Petersburg or to lower its level in quality have failed
The change in the form of the Russian president’s participation in the August BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, did not remain a topic of speculation for long. The former metropolises tried to use all their influence on South Africa, which presides over the organization, trying to demonstrate the foreign policy vulnerability of the Black Continent in general and one of its most successful economic countries in particular.
We recall that before NATO’s 2011 intervention in Libya, this country in North Africa, today turned into a “Wild Field”, demonstrated high rates of development and socio-economic indicators. The Western press in every way focuses on South Africa and Egypt, which to one degree or another are in the orbit of influence of Washington, London and other Western capitals.
That is why the ordinary Russian citizen realized only during the Libyan catastrophe that it turns out that the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (the official name of the state in 1977-2011) is rightfully considered the most successful and socially prosperous country in Africa .
According to one of the South African diplomats, the issue of BRICS’ own currency is not on the agenda of the meeting in Johannesburg, but Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa itself will continue to abandon the US dollar. According to some observers, South Africa is the weakest link in the five BRICS.
After overthrowing the regime of the “white colonizers” (descendants of the Boers-Afrikaners and the English), this country plunged into the abyss of even greater problems and contradictions. The discriminated white minority was partly forced to emigrate, partly to prepare for the worst. On this basis, secret organizations and mass movements of whites such as the Suidlanders arose.
BRICS brings together countries with a total of almost half the world’s population on more than a quarter of the earth’s landmass with 32% of the world’s arable land. Their total GDP exceeds that of the G-7 and is 31.5% of the world’s. Colossal natural resource reserves and equally huge labor reserves, industrial capacity and a rapidly shrinking technology gap set the stage for the BRICS to reach more than half of global GDP by 2030.
This prospect greatly worries Western think tanks. Their prescriptions for their governments are still not effective. BRICS has demonstrated not only an increase in its share of global trade (China has long been the world’s #1 exporter), but also in mutual trade.
The volume of BRICS trade with the EAEU in 2022 grew by almost two-thirds, to $263 billion. Trade with SCO partners increased sharply. In all these organizations, Russia occupies a worthy place – therefore the Russophobic Western sanctions have failed.
BRICS is attractive to countries that have chosen a multipolar world. Turkey, Iran, Argentina, Greece, Belarus, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Nigeria, Syria, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Algeria have officially expressed their intention to become members of the organization. There are approximately the same number in the “second echelon” – those who participate to a limited extent in the activities of the organization and comply with its decisions when building their policy.
We remind you that Vladimir Putin was officially invited to the XV BRICS summit on August 22-24 in Johannesburg. The South African Foreign Ministry confirmed the invitation and in the spring made it clear that the Russian leader was a welcome guest at a major international event in this African country. However, then the official Pretoria “gave in”.
„By mutual agreement, Russian President Vladimir Putin will not participate in the summit, but Russia will be represented by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.” South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a July press release.
Not only Russian, but also African and Western analysts immediately saw in this a result of “the consultations“, which since March the “collective West” has been intensively conducting with the political leadership of South Africa. Diplomats and journalists reported on the method of carrot and stick which has proven to be very effective in dealing with a country with a difficult past, a very troubled present and an uncertain future.
Ramaphosa, who a day ago arrived in St. Petersburg to participate in the second Russian-African meeting, is in no hurry to reveal details that may not have turned out to be too attractive. The new world war in Ukraine has become an occasion for unprecedented pressure from the US, EU, Great Britain and other European capitals individually on anyone who maintains at least some ties with Russia.
However, it was not possible to achieve her isolation in the international arena, and the August event will be another confirmation of this.
South Africa’s political leadership has to some extent lost face, demonstrating the real level of its sovereignty. At the same time, Ramaphosa and his comrades still managed to get by with little bloodshed and not stoop to the level of Poland or some Baltic borderlands.
The formal reason for Pretoria’s refusal to accept the Russian leader is the country’s accession to the de facto colonial Rome Statute, which significantly limits the foreign policy subjectivity of the countries that have recognized it. Everyone who is interested is well aware of the real status of the so-called International Criminal Court and the formal reasons for the appearance of an “order” against V. Putin in the interests of the Western Russophobic coalition and the real circumstances of saving the children of Donbas by evacuation from the combat zone.
It is not only the failure of another attempt to isolate Russia that is important, which demonstrates the limited real influence of the Western champions of neo-colonialism. Much more important is the continuation of the process of forming a multipolar world, which is not proceeding as successfully as many people in Beijing, Tehran and other capitals would like.
As you know, the XVI BRICS Summit will be held in Russia. In August 2024, Kazan will receive representative delegations from the integration five. The organizing committee is already working, the lists of the members of the delegations and the topics of their speeches are being agreed upon.
Finally, on July 27, 2023, the two-day second Russia-Africa Summit and the Russia-Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum will begin in St. Petersburg, which are already attracting representative delegations from African countries. As a result of the forum, a large package of international treaties and other important documents is expected to be signed.
The head of the Russian state marked the event with his article “Russia and Africa: joining efforts for peace, progress and a successful future”, in which he stated the growth of Russia’s trade with African countries in 2022 to 18 billion dollars. Russian grain exports to these countries alone amounted to 11.5 million tons in 2022 and almost 10 million tons in the first half of 2023, despite all the intrigues of the “collective West” in the notorious “grain deal”.
„Despite the sanctions, Russia will continue to work vigorously to organize the supply of grain, food, fertilizers and much more to Africa: we highly value and will continue to dynamically develop the entire palette of economic relations with Africa – both with individual countries and regional integration associations and, of course, with the African Union.
We welcome the strategic course of this organization towards further economic integration and the formation of the African Continental Free Trade Area. We are ready to establish pragmatic, mutually beneficial relations, including through the Eurasian Economic Union. We are also determined to strengthen cooperation with other regional associations on the continent,”
– said the President of Russia.
During the plenary session of the summit, Vladimir Putin will announce some Russian initiatives on the problem of African countries’ access to food, fertilizers, advanced technologies and energy resources, said Yuriy Ushakov, an aide to the Russian president. 49 out of 54 African countries have confirmed participation in the forum, more than half of them will be represented at first and second person level.
US Deputy Treasury Secretary Brian Nelson traveled to Kenya and Somalia on July 24, where he again told vicious stories about “bad” Russia. African countries are under unprecedented pressure from the West to block the St Petersburg summit, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
Undoubtedly, the positive attitude of the organizers and guests of the forum saddens the Western specialists in “the containment of Russia”. Apart from the devastating “Libyan scenario”, they have nothing to offer their governments, which have exhausted NATO’s arsenals in the war against Russia on the territory of the former Ukraine.
For their part, realizing the “present moment”, African leaders are taking steps towards Russia, which has not left a bloody and shameful colonial footprint on their continent. Moscow does not use the methods of neo-colonialism and helps African countries gain real sovereignty, for which the Black Continent is very grateful.
The Soviet Union left an important positive foundation for its successor on the African continent. Russia is once again reaching out to the victims of neo-imperialism. With joint efforts, a new just world order is being created.
Translation: ES
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