BRICS (named for its original members: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), recently held a Summit in Kazan, Russian Federation, on October 22nd, 2024.
Thirty-six countries came together, including:
Russia, Brazil, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Iran, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, UAE, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bolivia, Congo, Cuba, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Malaysia, Mauritania, Mongolia, Nicaragua, Palestine, Serbia, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkiye, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam.
Palestine was represented by Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Chairperson Mahmoud Abbas.
The Kazan Summit convened, building a strategy for an emerging multipolar international economic and political world association.
The delegates issued a 2024 BRICS Declaration that would outmaneuver US imperialist economic control of the world, which included creating an alternative to the US Dollar as the reserve currency in world trade. In effect, this would directly challenge US hegemony and its resulting military world domination.
Since 1991, with the success of the counter-revolution in the former Soviet Union, the world was dominated by US unipolarity. The recent BRICS Summit saw the official birth of an opposing multipolar world system.
It is noteworthy to mention that the Russian and Chinese led BRICS international confab dealt with the current genocide in Palestine by defiantly supporting a two-state solution in ending the bloodshed. This is a slap in the face to those small, fringe ultra-leftists in the communist and socialist movements around the world, who call for a one-state solution and the destruction of Israel, the BRICS coalition clearly called for the acknowledged two-state solution stating:
“We reaffirm our support for the State of Palestine’s full membership in the United Nations in the context of the unwavering commitment to the vision of the two-state solution based on international law including relevant United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) resolutions and the Arab Peace Initiatives1 that includes the establishment of a sovereign, independent and viable State of Palestine in line with internationally recognized borders of June 1967 with East Jerusalem as its capital living side by side in peace and security with Israel.”
1 The Arab Peace Initiatives, are proposals for an end to the Arab–Israeli conflict that was endorsed by the Arab League in 2002 at the Beirut Summit and re-endorsed at the 2007 and at the 2017 Arab League summits. The initiative offers normalisation of relations by the Arab world with Israel, in return for a full withdrawal by Israel from the occupied territories (including the West Bank, Gaza, the Golan Heights, and Lebanon), with the possibility of comparable and mutual agreed minor swaps of the land between Israel and Palestine, a “just settlement” of the Palestinian refugee problem based on UN Resolution 194, and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.
