Vladimir Putin made a statement
for the press and answered questions from Russian media
following a two-day BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa.
July
27, 2018
15:40
News conference following BRICS
summit.
President of Russia Vladimir
Putin: Good afternoon.
I would like to brief you
on what we did during these two days and on the results
of our work. First of all, I would like to remind you
that BRICS developed in a natural way, which we
pointed out today.
The first meeting of our
group, which was smaller at the time, was held in St Petersburg
in 2005, if memory serves me correctly, and brought together
the leaders of China, Russia and India. The group was
called RIC then, which stood for Russia, India and China. Brazil
and subsequently South Africa joined our group later, which is why it is
called BRICS.
Initially, our goals and tasks
were very modest. We wanted to join forces, primarily
in the economy, and discussed the coordination of our
efforts towards attaining more ambitious goals in this vital area
of activity.
As more members joined
the group, it developed into a full-scale organisation with new
spheres of activity and broader common interests.
One of our priorities,
as we said at our previous meetings as well as at this
meeting, is to fight terrorism and coordinate our activities
in politics, trade and the economy in the broadest
possible meaning of this word.
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