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#BRICS2024 🗓 On 22 October, ahead of the #BRICS Summit, a gala concert of soloists from BRICS countries was held in the Column Hall of the Kazan City Hall. 🎼Laureates of international and Russian competitions, singers of leading theatres and creative groups of the BRICS countries, accompanied by the Symphony Orchestra of Musa Jalil Tatar Academic State Opera and Ballet Theatre, performed for the leaders of the BRICS countries. Among the performers: 🇷🇺Pavel Milyukov 🇨🇳 Zhang Mengwen 🇮🇳 Anando Mukerjee 🇧🇷 José Gallisa 🇿🇦Siyabulela Ntlale 📸BRICS Summit Photo Bank

#BRICS2024 🇷🇺🇮🇳 President of Russia Vladimir Putin and President of the Republic of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosaheld talks on the sidelines of the XVI BRICS Summit in Kazan (October 22, 2024): 💬President Vladimir Putin: Mr President, friends, We are delighted to welcome you all to Kazan, Russia. We are grateful for your decision to take part in the BRICS Summit. Tonight, we will attend the opening ceremony together. This year, Russia assumed the BRICS chairmanship, taking over from South Africa, and we have built our work taking into account the resultsachieved at the Johannesburg summit.Our focus has been on the seamless integration of new participants into the multi-level architecture of #BRICS. 🤝 In close contact with our South African friends, we have worked on coordinating the modalities for establishing the partner state status. The relevant agencies of our countries collaborated in the financial sector to expand the use of national currencies in mutual settlements and to create an independent payment system. Our bilateral relations are based on the principles of a comprehensive strategic partnership, equality, and mutual respect. Our political dialogue is progressing, and our foreign policy departments and security councils are actively communicating. Interparliamentary cooperation has been established. <...> Russia and the Republic of South Africa closely coordinate their efforts on the international stage to establish a fair multipolar world order. 🇷🇺🌍 Russia attaches special significance to strengthening relations with African countries. Collaborative work is underway to implement joint agreements approved at the Russia-Africa Summit in St Petersburg, notably a declaration and an action plan until 2026. We look forward to hosting the head of your foreign policy agency in Sochi for the first ministerial conference of the #RussiaAfrica Partnership Forum, scheduled for November 9–10. #RussiaSouthAfrica

#BRICS2024 🇷🇺🇿🇦 Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa hold talks on the sidelines of the XVI BRICS Summit. 📍Kazan, October 22, 2024 #RussiaSouthAfrica

🇷🇺🇿🇦 "Very nice" - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa praises Russian-Tatar hospitality at Kazan airport The president tasted traditional Tatar chak-chak and Russian karavai. #BRICS2024

❤️BRICS countries' leaders continue to arrive in Russia's Kazan to participate in the #BRICS2024 summit 📸 Summit photo gallery - photobank

♥️#BRICS2024 📸 The final preparations for there the XVI BRICS Summit, starting tomorrow, have been completed! #Kazan welcomes its guests with traditional Russian and Tatar hospitality! Delegations from 36 countries, including leaders of 22 states, as well as the heads of six international organisations, are scheduled to attend the event. Russia's President Vladimir Putin will hold bilateral meetings with practically all leaders, participating in the Summit. ©brics-russia2024.ru

📞 On October 17, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had a telephone conversation with South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Ronald Lamola. The sides discussed the development of bilateral relations and preparations for the first ministerial conference of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum in Sochi on November 9-10, and the BRICS Summit in Kazan on October 22-24. #RussiaSouthAfrica#BRICS2024

#RussiaSouthAfrica#BRICS2024 🇷🇺🇿🇦 On October 17, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Ronald Lamola spoke over the phone. The Sides discussed the development of bilateral relations and preparations for the first ministerial conference of the #RussiaAfrica Partnership Forum in Sochi on November 9-10, and the BRICS Summit in Kazan on October 22-24.

🇷🇺🤝🇿🇦 On October 18, Dr. Iqbal Surve, Chairman of Sekunjalo Investment Holdings, a diversified investment firm based in Cape Town, and the Chairman of Independent Media, one of South Africa's largest media companies, attended the Heads of Leading Media of BRICS Countries conference and participated in a special meeting with President Putin. #RussiaSouthAfrica#BRICS2024

#BRICS2024 🎙Remarks by President of Russia Vladimir Putin at the Plenary Session of the BRICS Business Forum(October 18, 2024) 💬 I am sincerely delighted to welcome everyone to the BRICS Business Forum. I would like to note the wide representation of participants in this hall. We have leading business representatives from every country in the BRICS group. Your companies have been successfully cooperating for a long time, implementing impressive joint projects across a variety of domains: industry and energy, transport and infrastructure, agriculture and the digital economy. I would like to note, in particular, that this Forum is attended by business leaders from countries that became full participants on January 1, 2024. These are our colleagues and friends from Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia and the United Arab Emirates. 👉 I would like to emphasise that as the current chair of #BRICS, Russia strives to facilitate integration of new members into all cooperation mechanisms. We saw that representatives from the new BRICS countries were warmly received in the Business Council, and they, too, became actively involved in its work. The theme of Russia’s BRICS Chairmanship in 2024 is Strengthening Multilateralism for Just Global Development and Security. A meaningful action plan is being implemented to advance the partners on three major tracks: • politics and security, • economy and finance, • cultural and humanitarian ties. To date, the progress on the plan exceeds 80%. ℹ️ Over 200 events, meetings, conferences, and industry gatherings have been held, as well as most of the expert and ministerial meetings. However, the BRICS Summit, which will open next week in the Russian city of Kazan, will be the central event. It is symbolic that the leaders’ meeting in Kazan is preceded by this Business Forum, which underscores the importance of close economic partnership between our countries, promoting trade and investment, and deepening cooperation. The BRICS partners’ joint efforts aimed at accelerating socioeconomic growth and ensuring sustainable development bring concrete, tangible results and in fact, contribute to improving the well-being and quality of life of our countries’ citizens. <...> ☝️ Among the BRICS leaders' top priorities is to promote business activity. <...> By helping and supporting each other, we will fulfil the main goal of ensuring positive progress, security and ultimately the well-being of the citizens of our nations. ❗️ BRICS is not oriented against anyone. It is aimed only at one common goal — sustainable development and prosperity of our countries and peoples. 📸© RIAN, TASS

#BRICS2024 Early next week, starting October 22 and through 24th, 2024, Russia's Kazan will host one of the largest international events of the year — the XVI BRICS Summit. Its theme —Strengthening multilateralism for equitable global development and security. 👉Read more about the upcoming Summit, the agenda of the Heads of State and events with the participation of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The Heads of State will have a busy agenda. They will discuss global and regional issues and the results of their countries' strategic partnerships in the political, economic, cultural and humanitarian fields. They will also review the results of their security interaction, including the work of their High Representatives and relevant agencies in this field. They will focus on reforming the international financial system and enhancing the role of the BRICS countries, as well as promoting interbank cooperation and mutual settlements in national currencies. Another important item on the agenda will be the creation of a new category of BRICS partner countries. The main results of the Summit will be set out in the final declaration, including the consolidated approach of the member states to current international and regional issues and the further development of BRICS. (from the briefing of the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, October 16, 2024). Preparations for the Summit are underway with Kazan being decorated in BRICS livery and colours. Russia's Presidency logo is also displayed near the city's main landmarks. 📸 The official photo bankof the XVI BRICS Summit has been launched.The Event's Photo Host is RIA Novosti news agency. © Maxim Bogodvid