🇨🇳XI JINPING:
"Mr President, my dear old friend,
I was delighted to receive your invitation to come to the ancient city of Kazan to attend the 16th BRICS Summit. This is our third meeting this year.
The BRICS Summit is taking place in Kazan, and I learnt a lot about this city. I know that this summit is of great importance.
I found out that, 400 years ago, the Great Tea Road, which connected our countries, also passed through Kazan. Chinese Wuyi tea was brought to Russia via this route.
At the beginning of this month, we exchanged congratulations on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of our diplomatic relations.
Over the past decades, China-Russia relations have withstood the test of a changing international situation, come a long way and acquired an unprecedented character.
We have taken the right path of building relations between great powers on the principles of non-alignment, non-confrontation, and non-direction against third parties.
Mr President, in this new era, you and I always pay greater attention to bilateral relations and monitor them personally.
Both countries are committed to the spirit of eternal good-neighbourliness and friendship, as well as comprehensive strategic interaction and mutually beneficial cooperation.
They constantly enhance and expand multifaceted strategic interaction and practical cooperation in all areas, thereby giving a powerful boost to national revival and modernisation, making a major contribution to the well-being of the two nations and the protection of international justice.
During this unprecedent tectonic transformation, unseen for centuries, the international situation is undergoing serious changes and upheavals.
However, this cannot shake my conviction that the strategic choice of the two countries in favour of firm mutual support, the deep centuries-old friendship between our countries, and China and Russia’s sense of duty as great powers are inviolable.
BRICS is perhaps one of the most important cooperation platforms to consolidate the broad developing world and emerging market countries.
It is a system-forming factor in the creation of equal, orderly multipolarity and universally accessible inclusive economic globalisation.
We appreciate the enormous work done by Russia as part of its chairmanship, which has largely facilitated the successful beginning of cooperation within the greater BRICS.
We praise it.
I look forward to a substantive discussion with my BRICS colleagues, first and foremost with you, on further development of our association.
This will not only consolidate our positions and send a positive signal of solidarity and cooperation, but also expand large-scale strategic interaction and practical cooperation within the group, hence opening up additional opportunities for the Global South countries and making a greater contribution to the cause of building a community with a shared future for humanity." Via Sony Thang X 👍🏼🙏🏼
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