Sommet en Russie : « Ni le Brésil ni l’Inde ne veulent voir les BRICS devenir une plateforme anti-occidentale »

| 24 October 2024

Country : BRICS Source : Le Soir

À l’entame du sommet des BRICS, Poutine a déclaré à son homologue chinois Xi Jinping vouloir encore « renforcer » les liens avec Pékin, « facteur de stabilité » sur la scène internationale. D’autres membres fondateurs de cette organisation, partisans d’un monde multipolaire, ne veulent pas d’une rupture avec l’Occident.

Kazan a accueilli la première session plénière du 16e sommet des BRICS dans le format Outreach/BRICS+ le 24 octobre 2024.
(Photo : Presidential Press and Information Office of Azerbaijan CC https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2024_BRICS_Summit_%281729759568%29.jpg)

Une interview de Laurent Delcourt (CETRI) par Véronique Kiesel (Le Soir) parue dans Le Soir du 23 octobre 24.

Pour le Kremlin, il s’agit de « l’évènement diplomatique le plus important jamais organisé en Russie » : pendant trois jours, c’est à Kazan que se sont en effet réunis les dirigeants des BRICS, ce groupe créé en 2009 par le Brésil, la Russie, l’Inde, la Chine, rejoints en 2011 par l’Afrique du Sud, et auquel se sont ajoutés cette année l’Égypte, les Émirats arabes unis, l’Éthiopie et l’Iran. Les chefs de ces États et des responsables d’autres pays, sympathisants ou souhaitant intégrer les BRICS, sont donc rassemblés autour du président russe Vladimir Poutine, fier de montrer aux Occidentaux que non, il n’est ni réprouvé ni isolé.

Décodage de cet évènement avec Laurent Delcourt, chercheur au CETRI (Centre tricontinental, à Louvain-la-Neuve) et coordinateur de l’ouvrage BRICS+ : une alternative pour le Sud global? paru chez Syllepse.

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L’interview complète sur le site du journal ’Le Soir’

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