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Conflicting views pervade BRICS Ministers’ meeting
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- In a recent BRICS Ministers’ meeting, conflicting views pervades the meeting and failed to achieve its aim of articulating the voice of emerging countries.
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- Brazil stand:(1) Foreign Minister of Brazil Ernesto Araujo called upon fellow BRICS members-Russia, India, China and South Africa- to “act on Venezuela” in support of Juan Guaido, who proclaimed himself interim president of the South American country.(2) Brazil holds the rotating presidency of BRICS grouping for 2019.
- Conflicting views:(1) Russian Foreign Minister who also spoke on Venezuela, took a diametrically opposite position.(2) He said that international law should be the basis for reaching a solution by themselves without outside interference.(3) He then called for a similar approach to the crisis in the Persian Gulf.
- U.S influence:(1) Brazil’s new government, led by far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, has closely allied itself with U.S. President Donald Trump’s government.(2) In such a climate, the meeting opened with a bit of uncertainty.
- Commonality of purpose:(1) The final statement released to the media reflected a commonality of purpose among the BRICS countries.(2) The Ministers agreed to further deepen BRICS three-pillar-driven cooperation in the areas of economy, peace and security and people-to-people exchanges.
- Fight against terrorism:(1) The details of the statement reflect that the group of five emerging countries might now be looking for a bigger and different role in global affairs.(2) A large part of the joint statement is devoted to “fight against terrorism”, which emerged as a major theme of the one-day meeting.
- Afghanistan: On the issue of terrorism in Afghanistan, BRICS statement reiterated support for “international and national efforts to achieve an Afghan-led, Afghan-owned peace and reconciliation process”.a
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The Hindu