Putin: BRICS supports a world that respects international law and rejects hegemony

Johannesburg, (ST) – Russian President Vladimir Putin affirmed that the BRICS group supports a world that respects international law and rejects hegemony.

Putin said in a video speech during the plenary session of the BRICS summit in Johannesburg: We are working closely to strengthen supply chains within BRICS and the transition to national currencies in our transactions, in addition to the transition to digital currencies.

“Russia has decided to support the people who are fighting for their culture, for their traditions, for their language and for their future. Our actions in Ukraine have only one reason – to put an end to the war that was unleashed by the West and their satellites in Ukraine against the people living in Donbass,” Putin said.

He stressed that it was the wish of a number of Western countries to preserve their hegemony in the world that “has led to the grave crisis in Ukraine.”

Putin recalled that “first, with the help of the Western countries, an unconstitutional coup d’etat was carried out in that country, and then a war was unleashed against those people who did not agree with that coup.”

“This brutal war, a war of extermination, had lasted for eight years,” Putin emphasized.

In turn, Chinese President Xi Jinping said during the plenary session of the BRICS summit: We must fulfill our responsibilities and strengthen cooperation between us in light of the divisions the world is witnessing, and we must support developing countries in facing challenges and help them achieve development.

The Chinese president added: The BRICS countries support the principle of multipolarity, work to strengthen the role of the United Nations and stand against closed alliances.

Source: TASS

Raghda Sawas