2023-08-26 12:15:41
Yes. The final declaration of this summit is very interesting with positions taken on almost all the crucial themes of the moment: climate change, energy, space research, education, information technologies and risks and opportunities. related to it, payment systems for international trade, infrastructure financing through the new Brics Development Bank, etc.
Beyond the obvious ambitions of setting no limits in the areas of possible cooperation, the leaders of the Brics have sent messages to the rest of the world, in reality to Western countries. In essence, they say this: We reiterate our commitment to inclusive multilateralism and respect for international law, we support the central role of the United Nations in an international system where sovereign states cooperate to maintain peace, but we want to improve global governance by promoting a more flexible, more efficient, more representative, more democratic and more accountable system. A system that gives their full place to emerging and developing countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa. »
Unsurprisingly, they support a reform of the Security Council and they defend the participation of three of their members, Brazil, India and South Africa, knowing that the other two, Russia and China, are already among the members Council staff. The Brics also believe that the G20 must continue to play the role of the first multilateral forum in the field of international economic and financial cooperation. And for good reason: India currently chairs the G20, and two other members of the Brics will chair it until 2025, Brazil and South Africa. The Brics are now unavoidable and it is first of all a logical consequence of the demographic reality of the world, a subject that I recently addressed on this antenna.
You believe that Africa has a lot to gain from cooperation with the BRICS and from better representation of the continent within it with the entry next January of Egypt and Ethiopia alongside South Africa. South.
Yes, what seems to me particularly interesting in the Brics approach is the pragmatic approach which translates into commitments in specific areas. In the final declaration, it is a question, for example, of continuing cooperation in the field of traditional medicine, mentioned in particular in the speech of the Indian Prime Minister. The final text also devotes considerable space to education and skills development: facilitating the mutual recognition of academic qualifications to ensure the mobility of qualified professionals, academics and students, organizing dialogues on digital education policies , sharing of digital educational resources, among others.
Another important area for the Brics, industrialization and the development of skills for the new industrial revolution. These are key topics for African countries that can benefit from in-depth knowledge of the very diverse experiences of BRICS member countries.
But no international framework can, in your opinion, be considered a substitute for the internal changes and efforts that must be undertaken or accelerated in African countries.
Absolutely and we will not stop repeating it. We have to do our homework », as the Anglo-Saxons say, our homework, to be able to benefit from the opportunities linked to the different partnership frameworks, to also know how to identify the risks and threats associated with the different partnerships.
Let us not forget that today there would not be an economically and politically influential Brics on the world stage if countries like China, India and Brazil had not implemented with determination and on several decades of development strategies and public policies that have brought rapid and significant progress to their countries and improved the living conditions of their populations. They first made their homework ».
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