In a speech delivered at the session “Expanded BRICS: New Components of Global Stability” at the annual Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russian economic expert Dmitry Suslov called for the BRICS to become “the main driving force” to bring about a new global system, TASS reported. Suslov is Deputy Director of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, and expert of the Valdai Club.
Suslov said the BRICS is facing a “fork in the path,” in which “it has two alternative paths for further development. The first path, which I consider more preferential, naturally, is to maintain and even increase the intensity of cooperation and turn BRICS into the main driving force and institution of global governance and reform of global governance in the interests of the global majority, in the interests of the developing countries of the world,” he said.
“The question on the agenda is how BRICS should position itself after expansion. This is how it should be: It is the vanguard of the global majority,” Suslov added.