This week’s Kazan Declaration suggests that the BRICS – in its expanded composition– is ready to open a new chapter in its history.
Never before have such voluminous documents been adopted as a result of the group’s summits.
Moreover, the Kazan Declaration will be the subject of great interest in the world’s political and academic circles, as well as the object of criticism by opponents of BRICS.
The Declaration is a voluminous document containing 134 paragraphs, some of which are quite long. The statement adopted at the previous summit in Johannesburg in August 2023, contained only 94 paragraphs, and a document, adopted in Beijing in July 2022 had 75. Thus, year by year the outcome has become increasingly detailed and, as it is now customary to say, substantive, reflecting the gradual increase in the intensity of the group’s engagement and the broadening of the substantive scope of its multilateral cooperation.
The Kazan Declaration consists of a preamble and four sections dealing with:
(1) strengthening multilateralism,
(2) global and regional security,
(3) financial and economic cooperation, and
(4) humanitarian exchanges. […]
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