(22 Oct 2024)
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Kazan, Russia – 22 October 2024
1. Various of Kazan Kremlin exteriors with BRICS banners
2. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin entering room for talks
3. Modi, Putin and officials sitting down for talks
4. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vladimir Putin, Russian President:
“I am grateful that you responded to our invitation and personally came to Kazan for the BRICS summit. Today, we will take part together in the opening ceremony of the summit, then we will have a meeting of leaders over dinner, and thus we will begin our work. In Kazan, we must make a number of important decisions aimed at further improving the activities of the association and strengthening multifaceted cooperation within its framework.”
5. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Narendra Modi, Indian Prime Minister:
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“Your Excellency, first of all, let me thank you from the bottom of my heart for your friendship, for your warm hospitality. I am glad that I was lucky enough to come to Kazan, such a beautiful city, to participate in the BRICS summit. India has deep historical ties with this city, and after the opening of the Consulate General of India in this city, our relations will become even stronger.”
6. Wide of meeting
7. Various of Kazan Kremlin exteriors with BRICS banners
8. Wide of Chinese President Xi Jinping, Putin and officials sitting down for talks
9. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vladimir Putin, Russian President:
“Over the past 75 years, Russian-Chinese relations have reached the level of comprehensive partnership and strategic interaction. And we can say with complete confidence that they have become a model of how relations between states should be built in the modern world."
10. Wide of talks
11. Close up of Xi
12. Police car in the street under a BRICS banner
13. Various of people at a bus stop with BRICS banner
STORYLINE:
China’s President Xi Jinping, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other world leaders arrived Tuesday in the Russian city of Kazan for a summit of the BRICS bloc of developing economies.
The Kremlin hopes the gathering will turn into a rallying point for defying Western influence in global affairs.
For Russian President Vladimir Putin, the three-day meeting also offers a powerful way to demonstrate the failure of U.S.-led efforts to isolate Russia over its actions in Ukraine.
Kremlin foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov called it “the largest foreign policy event ever held” by Russia, with 36 countries attending and more than 20 of them represented by heads of state.
The alliance that initially included Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa has expanded rapidly to embrace Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
Turkey, Azerbaijan and Malaysia have formally applied to become members, and a few others have expressed interest in joining.
Observers see the BRICS summit as part of the Kremlin’s efforts to showcase support from the Global South amid spiraling tensions with the West while expanding economic and financial ties.
Proposed projects include the creation of a new payment system that would offer an alternative to the global bank messaging network SWIFT and allow Moscow to dodge Western sanctions and trade with partners.
Xi and Putin already met twice this year, in Beijing in May and at a Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Kazakhstan in July.
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