A New World Order

Sooner than anyone thought

Excerpts from V.V. Putin’s address to the 10th BRICS Parliamentary Forum

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Your open discussions, the face-to-face conversations between legislators representing their voters fully align with the principles that underpin BRICS philosophy. These include consideration of each other’s interests, reliance on democracy in international relations, respect for sovereignty of nations and their right to determine their own development trajectories.

These principles are close and understandable to all states parties of the BRICS group, which is growing rapidly and gaining a qualitatively new influence on the global dynamics and developments.

Again, parliamentary dialogue, including within the BRICS framework, is more important today than ever. After all, as speakers for the interests of your peoples, as representatives of their political and national will, you are keenly aware of the genuine demands, sentiments and needs of millions, or even billions of people on our planet.

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We understand very well that formation of a world order that reflects the real balance of forces and the new geopolitical, economic and demographic reality is a complicated and, unfortunately, even painful process – mainly because the efforts of the BRICS members and other developing countries are facing fierce resistance from the ruling elites of the so-called “golden billion” states.

Acting contrary to historical logic and often to the detriment of the long-term interests of their own nations, they seek to cement a certain order based on their own so-called rules that nobody has ever seen, discussed or adopted. These rules are written or corrected every time anew, to suit every specific situation and in the interests of those who consider themselves exceptional and arrogated the right to dictate their will to others. This is classical colonialism at its best, a clear attempt to replace legitimate international law and monopolise the ultimate truth – and this monopoly is destructive.

The pressure on those who have their own stance is growing. Contrary to the principles of international law, they are using force and coercion, unilateral sanctions, selective application of trade rules, and blackmail.

We have seen attempts to restrict direct contacts between lawmakers, which goes against the principle of free interparliamentary cooperation and the sovereign right of official representatives of every state to protect their national interests.

That is why today the significance and relevance of collective work by people’s representatives on the constructive agenda of our association are rising dramatically.

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This year, the number of BRICS members has reached ten. Every state is unique and carries its centuries-old culture, customs and traditions, building its own model of socio-economic and political development. Russia is taking every effort for new members to smoothly fit in the multi-faceted mechanisms of BRICS.

I have repeatedly said that BRICS is one of the key elements of the emerging multipolar international system, which increasingly reflects the interests and aspirations of the states of the Global South and East, and other supporters of our philosophy around the world – there are many of them, and their number is growing.

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Once again – openness, justice and equality are the principles that unite the BRICS countries. And parliamentary forums and conferences play a truly enormous role in promoting these principles in global affairs.

True, BRICS does not have its own official parliamentary organisation at this stage, but I believe that this idea will definitely be materialised somewhere down the road. And I am sure that your forum will contribute to this.

Main Points

a.) BRICS is in a formative stage.

b.) BRICS is not just an economic organization

c.) BRICS is core element of a new multipolar world order

d.) At some point it will have an international parliament built on the concept of the equality of its members, and democratic in its functions

e.) BRICS accordingly recognizes “Every state is unique and carries its centuries-old culture, customs and traditions, building its own model of socio-economic and political development.”

f.) The neoliberal, neocolonial Collective West – aka the golden billion” states— seek to quash this new world order “contrary to the principles of international law... using force and coercion, unilateral sanctions, selective application of trade rules, and blackmail.”

Putin lays things out very clearly with refreshing honesty of a kind we will never see from any “leader” in the Collective West—the Post WWII consensus is no longer.

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