President of Russia
  • Events
  • Structure
  • Videos and Photos
  • Documents
  • Contacts
  • Search
  • Search this website
President of Russia
Mobile version

President's
website
sections

  • Events
  • Structure
  • Videos and Photos
  • Documents
  • Contacts
  • Search
  • Search
  • For the Media
  • Subscribe
  • Directory
  • Version for People with Disabilities
  • Русский

President's
website
resources

  • President of RussiaCurrent resource
  • The Constitution of Russia
  • State Insignia
  • Address an appeal to the President
  • Vladimir Putin’s Personal Website

Official Internet Resources
of the President of Russia

  • Telegram Channel
  • Rutube Channel
  • YouTube Channel

Legal
and technical
information

  • About website
  • Using website content
  • Personal data of website users
  • Contact website team

All content on this site is licensed under

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Presidential Executive Office2025
Events

The BRIC summit has taken place

April 16, 2010
05:30
Brasilia
With President of China Hu Jintao.
Meeting with President of the People's Republic of China Hu Jintao.
Meeting with President of Brazil Luis Inacio Lula da Silva.
Meeting with President of Brazil Luis Inacio Lula da Silva.
With President of Brazil Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, President of China Hu Jintao, and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Signing an agreement on cooperation between the BRIC countries' state financial development and export support institutions.
Before press statements following the BRIC summit.
Meeting of the BRIC countries’ leaders.
The BRIC countries’ leaders during the press statements following the BRIC summit.
With Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh.
With Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh.
Meeting with Russian journalists.
Meeting with Russian journalists.

Taking part in the summit were Dmitry Medvedev, President of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Lula da Silva Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Luiz InacioPresident of the Federative Republic of Brazil , Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh Singh Manmohan Singh Manmohan , and President of China Hu Jintao Hu Jintao Hu Jintao .

Subjects discussed included cooperation on overcoming the global financial and economic crisis and international efforts to promote post-crisis development, including through the G20’s work, responding to new threats and challenges, including international terrorism and nuclear security in the light of the Washington summit, climate change issues, and new avenues for cooperation within the BRIC Background information BRICS group. Regional issues discussed included the Iranian nuclear programme, Middle East peace settlement, and the situation in Haiti.

The BRIC leaders ended their summit by adopting a joint declaration setting out their common vision of development in the world today.

The summit participants responded with understanding to China’s request to cut the summit programme short by one day after Chinese President Hu Jintao decided to return to China immediately following the earthquake in Qinghai Province.

This was the second summit bringing together the heads of state of Brazil, Russia, India and China. The first BRIC summit took place in June 2009 in Yekaterinburg in Russia, and the third summit will take place in China in 2011.

* * *

Press Statement following Signing of BRIC Summit Declaration

President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev: Ladies and gentlemen,

Today we continue the dialogue between the BRIC countries that we began with our summit last year in Yekaterinburg. I agree with my colleagues in that we held very interesting and productive talks that reaffirmed the fact that we are developing our relations in all different areas. I also want to thank our hosts, with President of Brazil Lula da Silva at their head, for their hospitality and for the tremendous work that went into organising this summit. The Brazilian President said just now that we are all tired, but I think that we were in good spirits as we made the decisions just taken, and I think these decisions are in keeping with our true objectives.

I also want to thank my colleagues, President of China Hu Jintao and Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh, for their productive work, and I express my admiration for the big organisational effort that our teams put into preparing this summit. 

Russia is interested in developing the BRIC countries’ cooperation so as to help resolve a whole range of complex issues before us, including what were probably the biggest issues on our agenda today, namely, working together on overcoming the global financial crisis, strengthening international financial institutions, and building a fairer and more democratic international system in general. The joint declaration that we adopted reflects in full our common approach to these most complex issues on the international agenda.

We agreed to continue discussing these matters, at expert level among our respective countries’ representatives, through dialogue at the ministerial level, and at the top level, through talks between our countries’ leaders. 

We discussed ways in which we can respond to other global challenges facing humanity today, including international terrorism, fighting organised crime and preventing drugs trafficking. I think the issues we discussed here reflect in full measure the range of problems facing our countries today. The BRIC format is indeed becoming a full-fledged platform giving us the opportunity to coordinate our efforts and make concrete decisions, including the decisions that were just approved here with the conclusion of the agreement that the heads of our development banks just signed.

I am sure we will continue these kinds of contacts, and continue to coordinate our work in the interests of our peoples, and I am confident that the decisions this summit has produced will be successfully carried out.

Once more, I thank my colleagues for their productive and committed participation.

See also

Joint Statement of the BRIC Countries' Leaders
April 15, 2010
Meeting with Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh
April 16, 2010
Dmitry Medvedev met with President of the People's Republic of China Hu Jintao
April 16, 2010
Meeting with President of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
April 16, 2010

Additional

Dmitry Medvedev's article, BRIC Countries: Common Goals — Common Actions, has been published
April 13, 2010

Topics

  • BRICS
  • Foreign policy

Publication status

Published in sections: News, Transcripts

Publication date: April 16, 2010, 05:30

Direct link: en.kremlin.ru/d/7475

Text version

Text
13
Photo

Share
Direct link
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/7475
Share
  • VK
  • Telegram
  • Ok
  • Send by email
  • Print
Send by email

Official Website of the President of Russia:

The BRIC summit has taken place

http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/7475

Last updated at March 20, 2015, 18:02

Официальные сетевые ресурсы

Президента России

Official Internet Resources

of the President of Russia

Русский Английский
  • For the Media
  • Version for People with Disabilities
  • Telegram Channel
  • Rutube Channel
  • YouTube Channel
  • Website of the President of Russia
  • State Insignia
  • Address an appeal to the President
  • Vladimir Putin’s Personal Website
  • Putin. 20 years

Presidential Executive Office
2025