BRICS Nations Meet on Terrorism, Cyber Security Issues

NEWDELHI,(ST)-  Secretary of the Russian National Security Council  Nikolai Patrushev,  stressed that the BRICs group of BRICs states  can be transformed into a locomotive  for  traction the global economy if  their inter-relations are maintained correctly.
Patrushev said in an interview with reporters  on Thursday at the conclusion of his talks with the Indian leadership and with  senior representatives of the Group of BRICs that global economy and the political system are changing rapidly and continuously .

Terrorism and cyber security were among the issues which dominated the fourth meeting of the national security advisors (NSAs) of BRICS nations in New Delhi on Thursday.

The top security officials of BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India -China-South Africa) also discussed regional and international issues, including conflict in Syria and situation in Libya.

The meeting also discussed how the grouping, which now accounts for about 43 per cent of the world’s population and about one quarter of world’s GDP, can work together for the global peace, stability, growth and betterment, he said.

“Most of our discussions concentrated on important regional and global developments. Naturally, West Asia, North Africa was major part of what we discussed. Syria, Libya, Mali (also figured). We also discussed ways to enhance our cooperation and coordination in cyber security, terrorism and piracy and other such threats to international security,” Menon said.

Observing that there was a “fairly detailed” discussion on cyber security, he said most of the BRICS countries were in the process of putting in place rules, structures and systems to deal with the issue, which “bothers all of us”.

He said the discussions included exchange of best practices and ideas such as setting up of emergency response teams to handle the cyber security threat.

Noting that there was a “high-level of congruence” on most of the issues, he said now the delegates will report back to their leaders and the discussions will feed into the preparations for the Durban Summit of BRICS leaders at end of March.

On Syria, he said the view is that the process has to be Syrian-led and the BRICS nations are against military intervention.

He also talked about BRICS bank, saying the proposal was almost ripe and is expected to come up at the Durban Summit.

Worthy mentioning  that BRICS  include Russia, China, India, Brazil and South Africa and are  trying to re-balance international relations and the world order  and move away from exclusivity , US control of World ‘s  policy and economy, and the global dominance system through intervention in the  internal affairs  of  countries and  exploitation of international organizations .

T. Fateh