Russian President Vladimir Putin drew attention to the scale that the BRICS association has acquired. The Russian leader pointed out that the organisation occupies 45% of the world’s population and 33% of the landmass.
‘BRICS is 45 per cent of the world’s population, it is 33 per cent of the landmass, it is a constant growth of trade turnover and level in global trade,’ Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with media leaders of the BRICS countries.
The head of state recalled that from 1992 to 2023, the aggregate growth in global GDP of the BRICS countries doubled, while that of the G7 countries decreased.
‘By this indicator, the BRICS countries are already ahead of the G7 countries and by 2028 – this is quite obvious, a ‘medical fact’ – the gap in favour of the BRICS countries will increase,’ the president said.
Putin also pointed out that in food and energy areas, without the BRICS countries, humanity in general cannot exist without them.
‘What distinguishes BRICS from very many other international organisations? BRICS was never built against anyone. Very well, said the Prime Minister of India. He said BRICS is not an anti-Western association. It is simply not Western. That’s the big point. That makes a lot of sense. That is, BRICS does not oppose anybody. It is an association of states that work together on the basis of common values, a common vision of development, and, most importantly, on the principle of taking into account each other’s interests. This is the basis on which we will work in Kazan,’ the Russian leader concluded.
Earlier, Vladimir Putin said that Russia was going through a difficult period in Russian history. He emphasised that in the emerging conditions of the new world reality, ‘someone is seeking’ to preserve its fading hegemony through Russia.
