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RUSSIA: Putin Talks Up 'Multipolarity' In BRICS+ Address

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Speaking in the city of Kazan at the BRICS summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks on a number of geopolitical issues. Says that the BRICS+ group (encompassing the nine BRICS members as well as invitees) will 'discuss the peaceful settlements of conflicts [and the] Middle East situation'. Putin decrying actions of the West claims 'There are attempts to curb rival countries in Africa and Asia...there are illegal sanctions, manipulations of currencies'. Says "Ukraine is being used to create strategic threats to Russia...they [the West] are trying to inflict a strategic defeat [on] Russia...those are illusory goals". 

  • On the Middle East, Putin says that the 'Gaza conflict spilt [over] to Lebanon...Other countries in the region were also affected. The degree of confrontation between Israel and Iran has sharply increased. All this resembles a chain reaction and puts the entire Middle East on the brink of a full-scale war.' Adds that any peace settlement 'should be based on the creation of an independent Palestinian state'.
  • In one of the most overtly political BRICS summits to date, Putin has used the event as an opportunity to push what he has described as 'multipolarity'. However, in effect this push, if realised, would represent a deep schism between North America, Europe, Australasia, and Japan on the one hand, and the BRICS and other emerging markets on the other. Advocating de-dollarisation and a new BRICS payment system, separate from the Belgium-based Swift, are two of the clearest signs of this separatist effort. 
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Speaking in the city of Kazan at the BRICS summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks on a number of geopolitical issues. Says that the BRICS+ group (encompassing the nine BRICS members as well as invitees) will 'discuss the peaceful settlements of conflicts [and the] Middle East situation'. Putin decrying actions of the West claims 'There are attempts to curb rival countries in Africa and Asia...there are illegal sanctions, manipulations of currencies'. Says "Ukraine is being used to create strategic threats to Russia...they [the West] are trying to inflict a strategic defeat [on] Russia...those are illusory goals". 

  • On the Middle East, Putin says that the 'Gaza conflict spilt [over] to Lebanon...Other countries in the region were also affected. The degree of confrontation between Israel and Iran has sharply increased. All this resembles a chain reaction and puts the entire Middle East on the brink of a full-scale war.' Adds that any peace settlement 'should be based on the creation of an independent Palestinian state'.
  • In one of the most overtly political BRICS summits to date, Putin has used the event as an opportunity to push what he has described as 'multipolarity'. However, in effect this push, if realised, would represent a deep schism between North America, Europe, Australasia, and Japan on the one hand, and the BRICS and other emerging markets on the other. Advocating de-dollarisation and a new BRICS payment system, separate from the Belgium-based Swift, are two of the clearest signs of this separatist effort.