Rio de Janeiro., Special Forces of the Army and the Brazilian Navy watch over air, sea and earth the city. A group specialized in chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear attacks took positions at the Museum of Modern Art, in Flamengo Park, near Santos Dumont airport. This Sunday and Monday, on that site- one of the most important cultural enclosures in Brazil- the leaders of the nations meet where half of the population of the planet live and four out of ten dollars of the world economy are generated.
The seventh summit of Heads of State and Government of BRICS, a group formed in 2009 by Brazil, Russia, India and China, which South Africa later joined this year after the extension approved last October, in Kazan, Russia. Now there are 11 full members plus 10 other associated countries, including Latin Americans Cuba and Bolivia. Together, these nations produce 43 out of every 100 barrels of the world and make a quarter of the global trade.
The Trump factor was not on stage on Russia. The president of the United States considered last January and with his arrival at the White House tries to bow in favor of the interests of Washington the balance of world decisions. This is an issue that marks the appointment and that yesterday, in previous meetings, it was revealed.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva described the current global scenario as increasingly unstable, marked by the resurgence of protectionism, unilateralism and the impact of the climatic crisis
.
His criticism of unilateralism reached the United Nations Organization (UN). I haven’t seen our UN as insignificant as now. A UN that was able to create the state of Israel, but is not able to create the Palestinian state
who has been unable to achieve an agreement in that region of the world to end a genocide who is killing men and women in Gaza
Lula added, in a forum sponsored by the New Development Bank (NDB), known as the Brics Bank.
He also showed him Dilma Rousseff, former Brazilian president and current director of the NDB, who is based in Shanghai, China.
Multilateralism is under pressure. We are witnessing a setback in the cooperation and resurgence of unilateralism. Tariffs, sanctions and financial restrictions are being used as political subordination tools
he expressed in the forum prior to Sunday’s summit, in which President Lula da Silva was present.
In addition to the five countries whose initials give name to the BRICS, belong to the Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia, Indonesia and Iran. In addition, as associates, they are incorporated into this Summit Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Nigeria, Thailand, Uganda, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.
Last January, President Lula invited Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo to join this year’s summit, but the president declined the invitation. In the meetings of this Sunday and Monday it will be represented by Foreign Minister Juan Ramón de la Fuente.
Lula defended the creation of a new financing model for developing countries sustainable and without conditioning
. He also defended the use of local currencies in operations between the countries of this mechanism, two months ago, Trump threatened to impose a 100 percent tariff on the countries that leave the dollar.
A new trade currency is extremely important; I know it is complicated, but if we do not find a way to do it we will end the 21st century as the twentieth and will not be beneficial to anyone
he pointed out.
This Friday, the Finance Ministers of the block put a proposal to be included in the discussions of the heads of state next Sunday, in order to advance in a tax to the great fortunes, theme that last week suffered a setback when the group of the 7 most advanced countries decided to exclude the US transnationals from a lien of that type, by pressure of the President Trump.