Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized a significant increase in cooperation among BRICS nations. This statement was made by Petr Sizov, Press Secretary of the Russian Embassy in India, on Friday. Sizov expressed optimism regarding the discussions expected at the 18th BRICS Summit, which is set to commence tomorrow in New Delhi.
I am sure that tomorrow, on the multilateral meetings, most of the important things will be discussed,” Sizov said. Sizov spoke in Hindi about the growing strength of the grouping that has India, China and Russia among its prominent members. Sizov also referred to President Putin’s remarks at the BRICS Business Forum meeting, in which he compared the contribution of BRICS countries to world GDP with that of the G7 countries. “We are very impressed by the speech of President Putin and PM Narendra Modi.
President Putin emphasized that the level of cooperation within the organisation is increasing enormously and he compared the growth of economies of our organisation and the so-called Big 7…Almost half of the population are now the members of our organisation in BRICS.
“Mein umeed karta hu ki yeh sabse jabardast community hoga (I have hopes that this will be a great community),” he told ANI.
Why is that? The answer is simple, BRICS countries account for more than half of the world’s population and that is why, they have a great dynamic, vibrant, domestic markets,” President Putin added. The meeting took place on the sidelines of the 18th BRICS Summit and was the second meeting between the two leaders in less than two weeks.
“Speaking about the growth of the world economy over the same period, we see that more than half of that growth has been accounted for by BRICS, whereas the G7 has only accounted for 18%. PM Modi and President Putin on Friday discussed closer trade ties, including implementation of the Programme for Economic Cooperation 2030, as well as cooperation in infrastructure, energy, technology, defence and culture. They had earlier met on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Bishkek on August 31. Both the leaders later on addressed the BRICS Business forum, with PM Modi urging the BRICS Business Council to prepare a report identifying the top 10 trade barriers among BRICS nations and called for supporting 100 BRICS startups annually to expand into other member markets. (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
In his speech, President Putin said that that over the last five years, more than 40% of the world’s GDP has been produced by the BRICS countries and the “contribution of the so-called G7, the Great 7 – I don’t know why they call that – stands at only 29%”.
