Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh shares important message at BRICS Summit

At the BRICS Leaders' Meeting 2024, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh proposed five strategic connections to jointly create a better world, cooperate for peace and prosperity; and shared Vietnam's development lessons on "connecting, integrating, and jointly building a better world" with three major perspectives.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attends the plenary session of the 2024 BRICS Leaders' Meeting with the theme "BRICS and the Global South: Building a Better World Together" - Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

On the morning of October 24 (local time), in Kazan, the Russian Federation, the plenary session of the 2024 BRICS Leaders' Meeting took place with the theme "BRICS and the Global South: Building a Better World Together" under the chairmanship of Russian President Vladimir Putin, BRICS Chair 2024.

The conference was attended by more than 40 senior leaders of BRICS member countries, guest countries representing developing countries in regions around the world and international organizations.

In his opening speech, as the Chair of BRICS 2024, Russian President Putin affirmed that BRICS will continue to promote its role, promote global cooperation, give all countries equal opportunities, build a more balanced and fair global governance system, and further enhance the role of developing countries to build a better world in which the legitimate interests and development rights of all peoples are respected.

At the conference, the leaders of the participating countries focused on discussing major orientations to solve a number of urgent global issues, such as conflicts, terrorism, poverty eradication, climate change and food security, etc.; emphasizing that BRICS must be a place for countries to coordinate for the common goal of prosperous development, contributing to strengthening cooperation in the Southern Hemisphere, promoting joint efforts of developing countries in responding to challenges, and improving global governance in a more equitable and comprehensive direction.

Many countries also emphasized that it is necessary to first ensure a peaceful and stable environment for cooperation and development; promote new growth drivers, such as digital economy, green economy, circular economy, science and technology, innovation, etc.

Speaking at the conference, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized the vision, global, all-people, comprehensive approach and promoted multilateralism, international solidarity, building a world order based on rules, sharing common responsibilities to solve unprecedented common challenges - Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

Speaking at the conference, with profound insights into the "new era - the era of deep connection and integration, the era of smart technology and innovation", Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized the vision, global, all-people, comprehensive approach and promoted multilateralism, international solidarity, building a world order based on rules, sharing common responsibilities to solve unprecedented common challenges.

To build a better world together, cooperating for peace and prosperity, the Prime Minister proposed 5 strategic connections.

Firstly, connecting resources, accordingly BRICS needs to take the lead in mobilizing, allocating and effectively using resources to adapt to climate change, further developing the green economy, digital economy, circular economy, ensuring food security, energy security and information security.

Second, connect strategic infrastructure, both hard and soft infrastructure.

Third, connect global supply chains on the basis of applying modern science and technology and innovation to create new momentum for economic growth and expand development space for all countries.

Fourth, connecting people to people through cultural, educational, tourism and people-to-people cooperation between BRICS and other countries to build a cultural space of "unity in diversity"; where different values are respected, commonalities are multiplied, where the beauty of friendship and cooperation is nurtured and cultivated, as the great Russian writer Dostoevsky emphasized, "Beauty will save the world".

Fifth, connect in reforming global governance mechanisms towards connection, sharing, balance, equality, efficiency, inclusiveness, and comprehensiveness for rapid and sustainable development. BRICS needs to fight more strongly against the protectionist trend and politicization of economic, trade, science, technology, and innovation relations.

Leaders of countries attending the conference focused on discussing major orientations to solve a number of urgent global issues - Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

Sharing Vietnam's development lessons on "connecting, integrating, and building a better world", the Prime Minister emphasized three major viewpoints.

Firstly, taking people as the center, the subject, the goal, the driving force and the most important resource of development; not sacrificing progress, social justice and environmental protection to pursue mere economic growth.

Second, firmly uphold the foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, peace, friendship, cooperation and development, multilateralization and diversification; be a good friend, a reliable partner and an active and responsible member of the international community.

Third, the "4 no's" defense policy (no participation in military alliances; no ally with one country to fight another; no allowing foreign countries to set up military bases or use Vietnamese territory to fight against other countries; no use of force or threat of use of force in international relations).

The Prime Minister shared Vietnam's development lessons on "connecting, integrating, and building a better world together" with three major perspectives - Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

In the spirit of promoting peace, dialogue and cooperation, quoting the great Russian poet Maxim Gorky that "Each nation and each country is an indispensable part of the great human body and only together can we achieve real progress", the Prime Minister believes that BRICS will unite further, promote endogenous strength to build a world of peace, stability, cooperation and development.

Reiterating President Ho Chi Minh's words "Unity, unity, great unity. Success, success, great success", the Prime Minister affirmed that Vietnam is ready to cooperate with BRICS and the international community to realize the idea of "building a better world together" for all people.