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The Foreign Ministerial meeting of Non-aligned Movement last week and its pronouncements particularly in the context of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has revived the old debate whether the body can actually play an effective role in international politics or pass into oblivion as an antediluvian body that emerged as an alternate to bloc politics during the cold war...
Aurobinda MAHAPATRA | 18.05.2012 |
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Beneath our eyes the vector of global force which has been pointing at the US for two decades is changing its direction pointing at the Asian giant - China... China has already taken dominating position on the markets of Europe, North America, Africa, South America and Australia. China has achieved impressive success in exports of its hi-tech products... In 2011, the Chinese oil and gas company Petro China became the world’s largest oil producer outrunning US Exxon Mobil and is continuing to buy assets all over the world... Today China clearly shows that it will respect only strong neighbors...
Elena PUSTOVOITOVA | 23.04.2012 |
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The agreement to explore in greater detail the establishment of a BRICS Development Bank (South-South Bank) and an Infrastructure Investment Fund is an issue of special importance... An agreement to replace the US dollar by own currencies in mutual credit lines is a great achievement of the summit too. The member countries demonstrated a desire to reduce the risks associated with the current economic woes in the United States. Actually it means that BRICS countries are saying that the US economy is currently ineffective and prone to risks...
Andrei AKULOV | 01.04.2012 |
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The sight of the BRICS has been an eyesore for the developed countries ever since its inception. The sense of irritability has now given way to disquiet bordering on hostility. There is a compelling urgency that BRICS is assuming habitation and a name. True, nothing of an earth-shaking nature has emerged from the New Delhi summit. Yet, there are new stirrings that herald the potential for a BRICS surge. And that causes disquiet to the developed world. Simply put, as the Delhi Declaration by the BRICS countries reminds is, it is a “platform for dialogue and cooperation amongst countries that represent 43% of the world’s population” in a multi-polar world. That is saying a lot...
Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR | 31.03.2012 |
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The fourth summit of the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) took place in Delhi on March 28-29. The summit ended with the participants signing a joint declaration, summarizing cooperation between the BRICS member states and outlining the prospects for further cooperation. China thanks to its fast-growing economy often referred to as the BRICS` ‘informal leader’, this time managed to regain its ‘best of the equals’ status... BRICS nations have confirmed their readiness to expand the role of their group of emerging economies on the global financial scene...
Vladimir PORTYAKOV | 31.03.2012 |
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26 to 27 of March 2012 will witness the second nuclear security summit in the South Korean capital of Seoul. The location of venue of the summit in the geo-strategic important region, which is also embroiled in conflict, has certainly added to the significance of the summit to be attended by about 53 countries including India, Russia, US, China and UK...
Aurobinda MAHAPATRA | 25.03.2012 |
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The third presidential term of Vladimir Putin will increase pressure on Russia from Western nations that have overtly and covertly sought to foment unrest throughout the Russian Federation. While such a threat is of the most immediate concern to Russia itself, another threat posed by the West will be the attempt by the West to pry more nations away from what is now considered by the military-industrial-intelligence complex in the United States and other NATO countries to be an emerging Russo-Sino bloc in Eurasia...
Wayne MADSEN | 15.03.2012 |
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The US military presence in Afghanistan and Central Asia bears an increasingly corrosive effect on wider Eurasian stability... At the moment virtually every small country in Eurasia, from Kazakhstan to Georgia, is more of a pawn than of a player on the chessboard of global politics and has to adapt to the strategies pursued by more powerful trendsetters. It must be bluntly taken into account that only two countries – Russia and China – can be regarded as such in the post-Soviet Central Asia.
Alexander KNYAZEV | 13.03.2012 |
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The state powers of North Africa and the Middle East overtly routed, the process of destabilization in Nigeria and some other Africa South of Sahara countries moved a little away from the radar screen. But the recent events taking place in the most populated country of Africa make themselves be viewed against the backdrop of the «Arab spring», or «Arab leprosy» to be more precise... Today Nigeria has entered the period of abruptly intensified efforts of outside forces to turn the country’s internal contradictions to their own advantage. The same thing threatens other countries, first of all Algiers, Niger and Mali...
Alexander MEZYAEV | 10.03.2012 |
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...The new prospects emerging thanks to the BRICS international cooperation pattern may become an alternative to the Anglo-Saxon “global governance” model. It’s quite possible the new pattern may be a harbinger of reshape (if not the end) of the UN as well as the decline and inevitable restructurization of such international bodies as IMF, World Bank and WTO.
Tiberio GRAZIANI | 06.03.2012 |
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