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Managers on the Developing Country BRICS summit have been doubled by the recent threat from the US President Donald Trump by an additional tariff for the nations that match the block, while swearing the efforts to move away from the US dollar.
The 11-nation group, which includes China, Russia and Iran, had already criticized Washington’s one-sided tariffs and attacks on Iran in a final explanation of his meeting of Rio de Janeiro without mentioning the USA by names. A social media contribution from Trump on Sunday evening Threat of an additional 10 percent tariff In Pro-Bric countries, the minds increased.
Host President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva von Brazil said it was “very wrong and responsible” by Trump to threaten “others (countries) on social media”.
“The world has changed. We don’t want an emperor. We are sovereign countries,” he told a press conference on Monday.
The left added that there was “no more back” when reducing the dependency on the US currency – another Briks Ambition – and that it would happen step by step “until it is consolidated”.
“The world has to find a way so that our trade relationship does not have to go through the dollar,” Lula told reporters. “Nobody found that the dollar is the currency standard.”
He didn’t have any details, but the central banks of the BRICS countries were run a project Examination of various possible international payment systems.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa made those who take revenge against those who do good in the world.
“It is really disappointing that if there is such a very positive collective manifestation, like Brics, others who want to see in a negative light and want to punish those who participate,” he told the public Sabcaster Sabc.
The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who stood for President Vladimir Putin, said reporters that Trump’s tariff threatening showed that the globalization model, which was once funded by Washington, had no longer worked. He added that the United States had “misused” the position of the dollar in the global financial system.
The western nations have questioned the relevance and coherence of the BRICs that bring autocratia such as China and Russia together with democracies such as Brazil and India. The long list of developing countries that participated in the Rio summit, as Associate members or observers, showed the growing influence in the global south.
“The Brics countries play an increasingly important role,” said Luis Arce, President of Bolivia, the Russian broadcaster RT on the edge of the summit. “There is a clear struggle between the old stagnant block of the USA and Europe on the one hand and the emerging block of the BRICS countries on the other.”
While the BRICS nations do not agree in some important questions, they are about the need to reform the global government. The explanation of the leaders called for a comprehensive revision of the United Nations, the IMF and the World Bank, so that they could reflect the realities of the 21st century and not the post -war period.
Russia and Iran both achieved diplomatic victories, with Moscow secured by the leaders who have deliberately targeted the attacks against bridges and the railway infrastructure in Russia in Russia in Russia “. The Russian attacks on Ukraine were not mentioned.
Iran, who came to the BRICS last year, withdrawn the conviction from the block of military strikes that it had grown and “serious concern” for “conscious attacks on peaceful nuclear facilities”, although the declaration neither mentioned the United States nor Israel named the name.
Marcos Troyjo, a former head of the group of BRICS Development Bank and critic of the group of the group, said that the block was “lost by the third world representatives”. He said it lost its original purpose as an elite group of Emerging Market -Titanes when it was founded by Brazil, Russia, India and China.
With regard to the 31-page statement of the block, which covered everything from space to cultural imperialism and artificial intelligence, he joked: “It has become like the Olympic Games. Every sport has to be represented.”
