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

Opening Address at Restricted Format Meeting of BRIC Leaders

June 16, 2009
22:30
Yekaterinburg

President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev: Colleagues,

Welcome once again to Yekaterinburg. Yekaterinburg is currently the epicentre of world politics living through a hot time in both the literal and figurative sense. It is hot outside, and inside very important summits are taking place.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit just ended and it definitely produced results; the discussion was useful and trusting.

And today we have a very important event too: the first full summit of BRIC countries. It is obvious that we now need to meet in this format and not merely communicate via our colleagues, the ministers of foreign affairs and other ministers. Rather, the four state leaders need to meet to discuss the situation in the global economy and critical issues in the international financial system.

Despite the fact that we often meet and communicate within other forums, it is very likely that this kind of coordination would help clarify each other’s positions and help us develop new innovative ways to address international financial problems and reform international financial relations.

Moreover, the countries represented at this round table have a significant weight in the global economy. The two largest countries in terms of population [India and China] are here, and Brazil and Russia are far from small. And ultimately, our success in implementing new economic programmes and reforming international financial relations will depend on the extent to which we understand each other’s positions and perhaps develop joint proposals.

I hope that our meeting today will be a starting point for future negotiations and the intensive development of this new forum, BRIC. We certainly have a wide variety of opportunities available to us: in economic, cultural, educational and foreign policies. I hope we will find common ground and adopt new interesting and advanced decisions in our mutual interest and for the benefit of our peoples.

Once again I would like to welcome you, colleagues.

Let us begin our work.

<…>

Publication status

Published in section: Transcripts

Publication date: June 16, 2009, 22:30

Direct link: en.kremlin.ru/d/4474

Text version

NaN /
  • VK
  • Telegram
  • Ok
  • Выделить
Text

Share
Direct link
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/4474
Share
  • VK
  • Telegram
  • Ok
  • Send by email
  • Print
Send by email

Official Website of the President of Russia:

Opening Address at Restricted Format Meeting of BRIC Leaders

http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/4474

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

BESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswy