Dear foreign ministers and colleagues:
I am very happy to meet you again via video.
Since the beginning of this year, under the leadership of the BRIC presidency, Russia, we have made every effort to overcome the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic. We have organized a series of activities in the fields of economy, trade and finance, political security, and people-to-people and cultural exchanges to comprehensively promote "three-wheel drive" cooperation.
In April this year, we hosted a special foreign ministers’ meeting to boost the confidence of the international community in fighting the epidemic.
These actions embodied the partnership spirit of BRICS to help each other and overcome difficulties together.
China is encouraged by the positive momentum of BRICS cooperation and appreciates Russia's effective work.
At present, the world has entered a period of turbulence and adjustment, facing a series of new threats and challenges:
The new crown pneumonia epidemic poses a direct threat to human health.
This serious global public health emergency has caused more than 25 million infections and hundreds of thousands of deaths.
However, the epidemic has not yet reached its bottom, and it will take time for the world to fully recover from it. We must be prepared to fight the virus for a long time.
Unilateral bullying poses a severe challenge to the international order.
Individual countries have gone further and further on the divergent path of unilateralism, constantly "withdrawing from the group" and "breaking contracts", severely impacting the international system with the United Nations at its core, and threatening the foundation of the majority of small and medium-sized countries.
Some extreme political forces have regained their "Cold War mentality" and tried to push the world into a dangerous situation of division and confrontation.
Protectionism has had a major impact on the world economy.
Individual countries have set off a trend of anti-globalization, erected protectionist barriers, and undermined the stability of the world's supply chain and industrial chain.
At every turn, they wielded the big stick of unilateral sanctions, contained and suppressed enterprises in other countries, and even advocated the "decoupling theory" in an attempt to artificially cut off the flow of capital, technology, industry, and people in the world.
At the same time, we must also see that the trend of the times of peace, development, cooperation, and win-win has not changed.
The law of development in which economic globalization continues to advance amidst twists and turns remains unchanged.
The basic trend of the collective rise of emerging economies represented by the BRIC countries has not changed.
The BRICS countries should boost their confidence, deepen cooperation, strengthen coordination, and take responsibility for international peace and global development.
To this end, let me make a few comments:
First, jointly respond to the challenges of the epidemic.
China agrees that Russia will make cooperation in the field of public health the focus of this year's BRICS cooperation, and support the establishment of a rapid response mechanism for the BRICS to respond to the threat of new infectious diseases such as COVID-19.
It is recommended that the BRICS countries strengthen joint prevention and control, and strive to achieve mutual recognition of international epidemic prevention health information, test results and health codes, so as to effectively reduce the risk of cross-border spread of the epidemic.
The BRICS countries should increase political support and resource input to the World Health Organization, support it to play a key leadership role in international anti-epidemic cooperation, and strengthen coordination and cooperation in international joint prevention and control, vaccines, drugs, and diagnosis and treatment methods. Human health and health community.
Vaccines are an important weapon to defeat the new crown pneumonia epidemic.
Vaccines should not be monopolized by any country, nor should they be exclusive to the rich and powerful countries.
At the opening ceremony of the 73rd World Health Assembly, President Xi Jinping announced that China’s new crown vaccine will become a global public product after it has been developed and put into use.
We will attach great importance to and actively respond to the actual needs of the people of the BRICS.
President Putin also announced that it will promote and produce Russian vaccines abroad. We believe this reflects Russia's positive attitude towards global anti-epidemic cooperation.
The BRICS countries have their own advantages in vaccine research and development, production and other fields. How to form an effective synergy and jointly make a BRICS contribution to the accessibility and affordability of vaccines in developing countries requires us to work together and strengthen coordination.
Chinese vaccine research and development companies are cooperating with Brazilian and Russian companies and institutions to carry out phase III clinical trials of vaccines, and will carry out vaccine procurement and production cooperation on this basis.
China is also active and open to cooperation in the field of vaccines with South Africa and India. The new crown vaccine cooperation can become a new highlight of the BRICS anti-epidemic cooperation.
We must implement the consensus of leaders, promote the construction of the BRICS vaccine research and development center, and promote vaccine research and development and information sharing.
Consider taking the lead in establishing a virtual R&D center to discuss joint R&D, joint overseas phase III clinical trials, authorized production, and mutual certification of vaccine standards, etc., and use this new crown vaccine cooperation as an opportunity to promote the BRICS countries’ drug regulatory and R&D institutions Docking and communication.
Second, jointly promote multilateralism.
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. It is an important opportunity for all parties to reaffirm the purposes and principles of the Charter and allow the United Nations to start anew.
At present, the United Nations is again at an important crossroads. We must answer whether to adhere to multilateralism or to allow unilateral actions, to promote multipolarization of the world or to let hegemony and power go, whether to join hands to meet challenges or to fight for each country. .
From cooperating to fight the epidemic to dealing with the Iranian nuclear issue by the Security Council not long ago, it shows that most countries are on the side of international justice and justice and on the right side of history.
In the face of ever-increasing global challenges, we need to uphold multilateralism more than ever, and we need to maintain the core role of the United Nations in international affairs.
The victory of the World Anti-Fascist War cannot be tampered with, and the contribution of the United Nations to world peace and development cannot be denied.
We must maintain an international order based on international law, practice the concept of win-win cooperation, oppose "withdrawing from the group" and "breaking contracts", and oppose inciting ideological and social system opposition.
Adhering to multilateralism also requires reform and improvement of the global governance system.
In this regard, the key is to balance fairness and efficiency.
Fairness refers to increasing the representation and voice of developing countries, especially small and medium-sized countries and African countries, in international affairs, and reflects international political reality and development trends.
Efficiency is to enable the United Nations and other international institutions to effectively and quickly respond to various new threats and challenges, and to modernize the governance system and governance capabilities.
The epidemic has exposed shortcomings and deficiencies in the global governance system, and reform is the general trend.
The reform of the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the World Health Organization and other international institutions has been put on the agenda. The BRICS countries should strengthen coordination and cooperation, defend their common interests, and ensure that the reform process is driven by all countries and not controlled by a few countries.
Third, jointly promote the recovery of the world economy.
Under the premise of ensuring safety, the five countries should actively carry out post-epidemic economic reconstruction, orderly promote the resumption of work, production and school, and strive to establish a new normal in which health protection and economic and social activities are relatively balanced.
It is necessary to make full use of the two forces of the government and the market to open up both domestic and foreign markets, stimulate economic vitality, promote employment and people's livelihood, and enhance development resilience.
It is recommended that the BRICS countries strengthen macroeconomic policy coordination and establish "fast channels" for personnel exchanges and "green channels" for cargo transportation to create good conditions for the five countries to resume work and production and restore their economies.
At the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, China launched the “Initiative on Facilitating the Cross-border Movement of People and Goods” and proposed to hold a seminar on border management and facilitation of personnel exchanges. BRICS countries are welcome to take the lead.
The five countries should give full play to their collective and comparative advantages, promote the expansion of the global market pie, implement a global sharing mechanism, and make a way of global cooperation. The BRICS countries are fully capable of stimulating the world economy again.
We must resolutely safeguard the multilateral trading system, promote trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, promote economic globalization to continue to develop in a more open, inclusive, inclusive, balanced and win-win direction, and accelerate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. After the epidemic, the world economy has injected more momentum.
Technological innovation is an important driving force for responding to the epidemic, achieving economic recovery and sustainable development.
We should encourage all parties to share opportunities for a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, and use the new business models and models spawned by the epidemic to achieve high-quality development and "green recovery."
We must oppose the politicization of science and technology issues, oppose interference in normal technological and commercial cooperation, oppose unilateral sanctions and long-arm jurisdiction, and promote countries to provide enterprises with a fair, just, and non-discriminatory business environment.
Fourth, jointly promote political settlement of hot issues.
Regional hotspot issues are still damaging peace, but the international community’s investment has declined.
Under the current circumstances, the United Nations should be promoted to play an important role in mediation and mediation.
The BRICS countries must jointly insist on a political settlement, oppose blindly imposing sanctions and opposing threats by force.
We must uphold the principle of national sovereignty, oppose interference in other countries' internal affairs, and countermeasures to initiate color revolutions.
At present, hot spots in the Middle East are one after another, and the Palestinian issue is still at the core.
The "two-state plan" should insist that the legitimate rights and interests of the Palestinian people cannot be traded.
All parties should uphold an objective and fair position, pay attention to listening to Palestinian concerns and propositions, and push the Palestinian issue back to the track of equal dialogue and negotiation at an early date.
To resolve the Libyan crisis, there is no way out by military means. The key is to push both parties to the conflict to earnestly abide by the ceasefire arrangement, and to advance political, economic, and military negotiations in parallel.
China appreciates and supports South Africa's active commitment to the political settlement of the Liberal issue as the rotating chairman of the African Union, and is willing to work with all parties in the BRICS to play a constructive role in achieving peace and stability in Libya and the region.
The situation in the Gulf continues to be tense.
China has three propositions: First, push the Iranian nuclear issue to return to the correct track of the comprehensive agreement as soon as possible. This is the top priority to ease the situation. Unilateralism and the so-called "limit pressure" will not lead out.
In the previous stage, the vast majority of the Security Council members, including the BRICS members, clearly opposed the United States’ launch of the “quick reinstatement of sanctions” mechanism, showing that there is more help than others.
The BRICS countries should continue to do the right things and continue to maintain the comprehensive agreement.
Second, issues in the Gulf region should be resolved by regional countries through dialogue and consultation. This is the only way to achieve security and stability in the Gulf.
The comprehensive agreement effectively ensures the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear program, but as a result of compromise by all parties, it is impossible to resolve all issues.
On the premise of maintaining the comprehensive agreement, all parties can open up another regional dialogue platform for countries to promote the formation of a new consensus on maintaining regional peace and stability.
Third, countries outside the region should inject "positive energy" into restoration and peace, not the other way around.
All parties should proceed from the maintenance of multilateralism and the international order, and help more without adding chaos.
The peace and reconciliation process in Afghanistan once again ushered in an important opportunity.
The current focus is to ensure the inclusiveness and fairness of the Afghan reconciliation negotiations, to allow all Afghan parties, ethnic groups, and sects to participate equally, to reflect the principle of "Afghanis-led and Afghan-owned", and to prevent individual countries from monopolizing the negotiation process. , Causing new hidden dangers and problems.
Negotiation is the right direction, but it also requires a process, and even repetitions.
All parties must maintain determination and patience, and cannot give up their efforts due to temporary difficulties.
The international community should increase its attention and investment in the Afghan issue and resolutely combat all forms of terrorism.
Foreign military forces in Afghanistan should withdraw orderly and responsibly, and no mess should be left behind.
At the same time, support for the development and reconstruction of Afghanistan should be increased, and Afghanistan should be further included in regional cooperation arrangements.
For a period of time, the situation on the Korean Peninsula has been generally stable, but the stalemate in the dialogue between the DPRK and the United States has continued, and the political settlement of the Peninsula issue has stalled.
The main sticking point is that North Korea’s security and development concerns have not received due attention.
The United States should earnestly shoulder its responsibilities, take sincere and attractive measures, and respond to the legitimate and reasonable concerns of the DPRK with practical actions.
The DPRK and South Korea should also improve their relations, which is very important for stabilizing the situation and advancing dialogue.
China’s position is very clear. We still stand for advancing the “dual-track” approach. On the one hand, we promote and realize the denuclearization of the peninsula, and on the other hand, we promote and establish a peace mechanism on the peninsula, so as to finally achieve long-term peace and stability on the peninsula.
The world is undergoing major changes unseen in a century.
The BRIC countries, which own 30% of the world's land, 42% of the population, and one-fifth of the total economy, should become a stable anchor in the great changes.
As long as we stay united and work together, the BRICS countries can further become a force for maintaining world peace and stability, a driving force for global common development, and a force for promoting international fairness and justice.
This is not only in the common interests of the BRICS countries, but will also benefit the entire world.
Dear colleagues,
Regarding the next stage of cooperation between the BRICS countries, China would like to make a few suggestions.
First, make every effort to prepare for the leaders' meeting.
The leaders’ meeting is the top priority of the BRICS cooperation throughout the year, and plays a key role in setting the tone, setting the direction, and increasing motivation.
Since the beginning of this year, Russia has actively played its role as the presidency and has done a lot of work in preparing for the leaders’ meeting.
At the same time, considering that there is still a lot of uncertainty in the development of the epidemic, we should also fully estimate the situation that may be encountered, organize the meeting in a safe manner, and strive for the best results.
China is willing to maintain close communication with all parties to jointly promote this year’s leaders’ meeting to achieve positive results.
Second, build a solid foundation for political and security cooperation.
Political security cooperation plays an important supporting role in the cooperation of the BRICS countries, and is also an important source of the centripetal force and cohesion of our five countries.
In recent years, the BRICS countries have strengthened their position coordination on major international issues under the framework of the United Nations and others. They have repeatedly voiced collectively on safeguarding international fairness and justice and opposing unilateralism and bullying. This has not only further expanded the common denominator of the positions of the five countries, but also It has also won widespread praise from the international community.
This year, the BRICS countries held consultations on Middle East affairs at the deputy foreign minister level, reiterating their adherence to dialogue and consultation, peaceful settlement of disputes through political and diplomatic means, and maintaining stability in the Middle East.
The five countries also held a counter-terrorism working group meeting to promote the formulation of the "BRICS Counter-Terrorism Strategy," and agreed to strengthen cooperation in areas such as experience exchange, information sharing, and counter-terrorism law enforcement, and work together to eradicate the breeding ground for terrorism.
In the face of the chaotic and intertwined international situation, the BRICS countries must plan their cooperation in the political and security field from a strategic perspective, continue to give full play to the role of leaders’ meetings, foreign ministers’ meetings, high-level security representatives meetings, and regular consultations with representatives of permanent multilateral institutions to strengthen Strategic communication, enhance political mutual trust, release positive signals of safeguarding peace and stability, transform political security consensus into practical actions, and jointly respond to various traditional and non-traditional security challenges.
Third, build a building for economic, trade and financial cooperation.
The BRICS countries are all at a critical stage of national rejuvenation, and development is our top priority.
Economic cooperation is the cornerstone of the BRIC building.
We must continue to deepen economic and trade cooperation between the five countries, accelerate the formulation of the "BRICS Economic Partnership Strategy 2025", give full play to the comparative advantages of the BRICS countries, follow the trend of world economic development, and promote innovation, sustainable development, interconnection, poverty reduction and other fields Cooperation deepens and solidifies.
The New Development Bank is the flagship project of BRICS economic cooperation, which has played an active role in the economic and social development of the five countries and has become a useful supplement to the international financial architecture.
After the outbreak, the New Development Bank decided to provide the BRICS countries with a special loan of US$10 billion to fight the epidemic, providing tangible assistance to the five countries.
At the meeting of the leaders of the BRICS countries in Brasilia, the leaders of the five countries clearly authorized the expansion of bank staff, which pointed out the direction for the bank to become bigger and stronger.
We must strive to achieve substantive progress before this year’s leaders’ meeting, expand the bank’s international influence, and enhance the BRIC countries’ voice in global financial governance.
The BRICS New Industrial Revolution Partnership is a landmark cooperation project for the BRICS countries to focus on the future and seek leapfrog development.
We must seize the opportunities of new industries, new business forms, and new models spawned by the epidemic, accelerate the establishment of partnerships for the new industrial revolution, and focus on cooperation in the construction of new infrastructure such as 5G, big data, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing, so as to provide high-quality development for the five countries Solid support.
A series of consensus was reached at the meeting of industry ministers held not long ago.
China is actively studying the establishment of a New Industrial Revolution Partnership Innovation Center in China, and launching activities such as the BRICS New Industrial Revolution Partnership Forum, Industrial Innovation Competition, and skills training to further enrich and enrich the content of the partnership and help the five countries to innovate and develop. BRIC partners are welcome to actively participate.
Fourth, tighten the bonds of cultural exchanges and cooperation.
The BRICS countries are big countries with profound civilization, and cultural exchanges are an important pillar of cooperation among the five countries.
In recent years, activities such as BRICS cultural festivals, film festivals, sports meets, state governance seminars, and think tank council meetings have been gradually rolled out. Cooperation highlights such as co-production of films and documentary co-productions have been shown, which has promoted cultural mutual learning among the five countries. Jian, the people of the five countries know each other on blind dates.
Facing the impact of the epidemic this year, the five countries have opened up new ideas and innovated methods, and launched a variety of online activities, adding new connotations to the BRICS cultural exchanges.
The deepest strength of BRICS cooperation lies in the people.
Under the special situation of the epidemic, we must continue to brainstorm and carry out cultural exchanges in a flexible manner.
China will actively participate in the BRICS Women’s Parliamentary Forum, Young Diplomat Forum, Young Scientist Forum, Online University Conference, Academic Forum, Sister Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum and other activities that Russia plans to hold online, so that people from the five countries Feel more of the charm of BRICS cooperation, and bring the strengths of all walks of life to the cause of BRICS cooperation.
Dear colleagues,
Facing the complex situation of the pandemic of the century and the great changes of the century, we must not forget the original intention of uniting and self-improvement, undertake the mission of common development, not be afraid of difficulties and risks, not be confused by external interference, and persevere in advancing BRICS cooperation. China’s development will open up a broader space and join hands to build a peaceful, stable, and win-win "post-epidemic" world.
Thank you.