Valdai Discussion Club 21 st annual meeting on November 7, 2024

 Valdai Discussion Club meeting

Vladimir Putin took part in the plenary session of the 21^st annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club.

 

November 7, 2024

23:50

Sochi

The theme of the meeting is Lasting Peace on What Basis? Common Security and Equal Opportunities for Development in the 21^st Century.

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Research Director of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai International Discussion Club Fyodor Lukyanov: Ladies and gentlemen, guests, friends, participants of the Valdai Discussion Club meeting!

 

We are starting the plenary session of the 21^st annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club. We have spent four wonderful days full of discussions and now we can try to sum up some of the results.

 

I would like to invite President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin to the stage.

 

President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Thank you. Thank you very much.

 

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, friends,

 

I am delighted to welcome all of you to our traditional meeting. First of all, I would like to thank you for taking part in acute and substantive discussions of the Valdai Club. We are meeting on November 7, which is a significant date both for Russia and the entire world. The Russian Revolution of 1917, like the Dutch, English and great French Revolutions in their time, all became, to a certain extent, milestones in the development path of humanity and largely determined the course of history, the nature of politics, diplomacy, economies, and social structure.

 

VLADIMIR PUTIN at Valdai

Putin attends Valdai Club plenary session in Sochi

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DISCURSO DE VLADIMIR PUTIN NO CLUBE INTERNACIONAL DE DEBATES, EM VALDAI

Encontro do Clube Internacional de Debates de Valdai

Vladimir Putin participou na sessão plenária final da 14ª reunião anual do Clube Internacional de Debates de Valdai, intitulado: 

O Mundo do Futuro: Incentivar  do Conflito para a Cooperação.

19 de Outubro de 2017
20:10
Sochi

Fyodor Lukyanov: Agora dou a palavra ao Presidente da Federação  Russa, Vladimir Putin, para nos instilar algum optimismo.

Presidente da Federação Russa, Vladimir Putin: Muito obrigado. Não tenho a certeza de quão optimista soará, mas sei que, nos últimos três dias,  tiveram debates muito acalorados.  Como já se tornou hábito, tentarei partilhar convosco o que penso sobre algumas das questões. Por favor, não levem a mal se referir algo que já foi dito, pois não acompanhei os debates.

Para começar, gostaria de  dar as boas vindas ao Snr. Karzai, ao Snr. Ma e ao Snr. Toje e a todos os colegas e amigos. Vejo muitos rostos familiares no auditório. Sejam bem-vindos à reunião do Clube Valdai.

Por tradição, este fórum dedica-se ao debate dos assuntos políticos e económicos globais mais urgentes. Desta vez, os organizadores, como já mencionado, encararam um desafio bastante difícil pedindo aos participantes que tentem olhar mais além do horizonte e reflectir sobre o que vai acontecer nas próximas décadas, quer na Rússia, quer na comunidade internacional.

Claro que é impossível prever tudo e ter em conta todas as oportunidades e riscos que teremos de enfrentar.   No entanto, necessitamos compreender e sentir as principais tendências para procurar respostas inovadoras aos problemas que o futuro está a apresentar, neste momento e certamente irá colocar ainda mais.  O ritmo dos desenvolvimentos é tal, que devemos reagir ágil e continuamente.

O mundo entrou numa era de mudanças rápidas. Coisas que eram referidas recentemente como  fantásticas ou inatingíveis, tornaram-se uma realidade, concretizaram-se e fazem parte das nossas vidas diárias.

Processos qualitativamente novos estão a desdobrar-se, em simultâneo, em todas as esferas. O ritmo acelerado da vida pública em vários países e as revoluções tecnológicas estão agora entrelaçadas com as mudanças na arena internacional. A competição por um lugar na hierarquia global está a acentuar-se. No entanto, já não são aplicáveis muitas receitas do passado para o governo global, para a superação de conflitos, bem como para as contradições naturais. Falham, muitas vezes, e as novas ainda não foram desenvolvidas.

Naturalmente, os interesses dos Estados nem sempre coincidem, longe disso. É normal e natural. Sempre foi esse caso. Os principais poderes têm inúmeras estratégias geopolíticas e percepções do mundo. Esta é a essência imutável das relações internacionais, que se baseia no equilíbrio entre a cooperação e a competição.

Na verdade, quando este equilíbrio é perturbado, quando a observância e até a existência de regras de conduta universais são questionadas, quando os interesses são pressionados a qualquer custo, as disputas tornam-se imprevisíveis e perigosas e conduzem a conflitos violentos.

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Vladimir Putin took part in the final plenary session of the 14^th annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club titled The World of the Future: Moving Through Conflict to Cooperation.

October 19, 2017

20:10

Sochi

 

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On October 19, the President will speak at the meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club

On October 19, the President will speak at the meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club

On October 19, Vladimir Putin will take part in the final plenary session of the 14^th annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club titled The World of the Future: Moving Through Conflict to Cooperation.

The general topic of the Valdai Club this year is Creative Destruction: Will a New World Order Emerge from the Current Conflicts?

During the four days of the forum the participants are discussing political and social conflicts of the modern world and opportunities of society’s adaptation to the new factors and conditions.

Through analysis of the current conflicts experts and political scientists predict the shape of the future world.

This year the Valdai meeting brought together over 130 participants from 33 countries.

Alongside the President of Russia the speakers at the final session will include former President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai, Research Director at the Norwegian Nobel Institute Asle Toje, and Executive Chairman of Alibaba Group Jack Ma.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin is discussing global challenges and Russia’s place in a dramatically-changing world with experts of the Valdai club at its annual session in Sochi.

• 27 October 2016

  16:53 GMT

  Question: Do you think that further development of the Russian economy requires an overhaul of the political system? And a second question: do you think anti-American nuclear rhetoric on a Russian state channel is appropriate?
• 16:48 GMT

  Putin: Everyone wants to defuse geopolitical tensions. But it should be done by obliterating us, should it?

  They only act at the expense of our interests. They state a position they like and only work on making us accept it.

  Anti-Russian sanctions would still be there without Crimea or Ukraine. They would have found other pretexts to target Russia.
• 16:47 GMT

  Question: Don’t you think Russians, especially the wealthy ones, want you to defuse geopolitical tension?
• 16:45 GMT

  Putin:We were not the ones who put us in this position. We were open for dialogue, not unilateral moves that the US took.

  And there is a difference. Take Crimea and Kosovo. Kosovo separated from Serbia after a bombing campaign. In Crimea nobody died. And in Crimea the parliament voted on it, unlike in Kosovo.

  If you don’t want us to act in a certain way, stop provoking us.
• 16:42 GMT

  Question: The Americans may say that Putin criticizes the US to deflect criticism directed at him. The wording you use is so much like that used against you. Don’t you think it hurts dialogue?
• 16:40 GMT

  Putin:  First: it’s always good to listen to smart people. Second: It’s a chance for me to state our position so that you can translate it in your nations.

Vladimir Putin at the Meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club

Meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club

Vladimir Putin took part in the final plenary session of the 12^th annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club.

October 22, 2015

20:45

Sochi

Meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club

This topic of this year’s Valdai conference is Societies Between War and Peace: Overcoming the Logic of Conflict in Tomorrow’s World. In the period between October 19 and 22, experts from 30 countries have been considering various aspects of the perception of war and peace both in the public consciousness and in international relations, religion and economic interaction between states.

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President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Colleagues, ladies and gentlemen,

Allow me to greet you here at this regular meeting of the Valdai International Club.

It is true that for over 10 years now this has been a platform to discuss the most pressing issues and consider the directions and prospects for the development of Russia and the whole world. The participants change, of course, but overall, this discussion platform retains its core, so to speak – we have turned into a kind of mutually understanding environment.

We have an open discussion here; this is an open intellectual platform for an exchange of views, assessments and forecasts that are very important for us here in Russia. I would like to thank all the Russian and foreign politicians, experts, public figures and journalists taking part in the work of this club.

This year the discussion focusses on issues of war and peace. This topic has clearly been the concern of humanity throughout its history. Back in ancient times, in antiquity people argued about the nature, the causes of conflicts, about the fair and unfair use of force, of whether wars would always accompany the development of civilisation, broken only by ceasefires, or would the time come when arguments and conflicts are resolved without war.

I’m sure you recalled our great writer Leo Tolstoy here. In his great novel War and Peace, he wrote that war contradicted human reason and human nature, while peace in his opinion was good for people.

True, peace, a peaceful life have always been humanity’s ideal. State figures, philosophers and lawyers have often come up with models for a peaceful interaction between nations. Various coalitions and alliances declared that their goal was to ensure strong, ‘lasting’ peace as they used to say. However, the problem was that they often turned to war as a way to resolve the accumulated contradictions, while war itself served as a means for establishing new post-war hierarchies in the world.

Meanwhile peace, as a state of world politics, has never been stable and did not come of itself. Periods of peace in both European and world history were always been based on securing and maintaining the existing balance of forces. This happened in the 17^thcentury in the times of the so-called Peace of Westphalia, which put an end to the Thirty Years’ War. Then in the 19^th century, in the time of the Vienna Congress; and again 70 years ago in Yalta, when the victors over Nazism made the decision to set up the United Nations Organisation and lay down the principles of relations between states.