The Russian president saw his Iranian counterpart in Turkmenistan yesterday. It is just one step in the “irreversible” construction of the anti-Western bloc that will end with the Brics summit.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who aims to consolidate the Kremlin’s alliances in view of the next BRICS summit, met with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in Turkmenistan yesterday, where the two leaders emphasized the economic ties that exist growing between their countries and the convergence of views. on world affairs. An agreement that caused concern for the United States and the European Union.
Putin is increasingly keen to deepen ties with the Global South as an anti-Western force. In addition, the Brics are the most popular geopolitical club on the scene and there is a long queue of future members at the door. At this stage, it seems to many observers that the Israeli attack in Gaza and Lebanon and recently against the UN forces deployed in the south of the country of the Cedars is a great gift for the hegemonic ambitions of the Russian President Vladimir Putin and the President of the Xi Jinping’s China. the Global South whose representatives at the United Nations have mocked the West for the double standard with which it judges Israel’s policies.
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Putin, whose country will host the Brics summit in Kazan on October 22 and 24, invited Iranian President Pezeshkian to pay an official visit to Russia, a proposal the Iranian leader accepted. “Economically our relations are strengthening and becoming stronger,” Pezeshkian told Putin, according to the Iranian news agency IRNA. Pezeshkian last month promised his country to strengthen ties with Russia to fight Western sanctions.
«The relationship is developing very well. This year we see growth in trade,” he said. According to Reuters, Putin also spoke of the “irreversible” establishment of a new world order, far from US dominance. The two countries say they are close to signing a strategic partnership agreement, which Pezeshkian hopes can be finalized at the Brics summit in Russia later this month.
The United States is concerned about Moscow’s growing relationship with Tehran. Washington has accused Iran of supplying ballistic missiles to Russia for use in the conflict in Ukraine, which Tehran has denied.
“Our assessments of the world situation are often very close,” Putin told the Tass agency in Pezeshkian, on the sidelines of the conference in the Turkish capital Ashgabat. Pezeshkian noted that Iran and Russia have significant complementary capabilities.
“Our positions in the world are much closer to each other than other people’s positions,” he told the Russian leader. Pezeshkian said Israel should “stop killing innocent people” and that the US and EU support its actions in the Middle East. Russia has also criticized Israel, which it says is protecting its security by bombing civilian areas.
The BRICS, which initially included Brazil, Russia, India and China, has expanded to include South Africa, ie EgyptEthiopia, Iran, United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. The Moscow meeting is based on the program of the Group of 20, in which summits will be held before the summits of the best economic policy leaders in which proposals are outlined for consideration by the leaders at the top.
Russia, approved by the West for war in Ukraine but whose economy, according to the Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov, is growing this year at 3.9 percent, cut off from international capital markets and is trying to woo Brics partners with initiatives like the creation of the Brics international payment system another bridge on the west side. any.
“Our main task is to create a cross-border payment initiative,” Siluanov told Brics officials. Russia wants to create a Brics financial clearing house, rating agency, insurance company and commodity exchange.
The challenge has just begun but the West seems paralyzed until the American vote.