The BRICS countries are playing an increasingly significant role on the world stage, because of the position of the countries of the Association turned out to prevent the invasion of Syria by foreign forces and achieve the destruction of Syrian chemical weapons, said Secretary of the Russian security Council Nikolai Patrushev.
"The BRICS countries are playing an increasingly important role in the global political arena. It is because of the principled position of Russia and China in the UN security Council, supported by other members of the " five ", was to prevent foreign military intervention in Syria, to achieve the destruction of Syrian chemical weapons and to defend its falling into the hands of terrorists, " Patrushev said at a meeting of commissioners of the BRICS countries on security issues.
according to his statement, in the focus of the BRICS are also the issues of ensuring stability in the middle East and North Africa, Iran's nuclear program, the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, the situation in Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine, problems of ecology and climate.
"Convinced of the need for increased interaction between our countries in such areas as military-technical cooperation, joint fight against crime, extremism, separatism, transnational crime, and to counter new challenges and threats ", - said Patrushev.
The BRICS (eng. BRICS - the group of five rapidly developing countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa).
Practical cooperation in the BRIC began in September 2006 when, on the initiative of Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of a session of the UN General Assembly in new York took place the first meeting of foreign Ministers in this format. It resulted in the confirmation by the parties interested in the development of the multidimensional quadrilateral cooperation.
Its current name of the group (BRICS) group began to wear in the early winter of 2010 in connection with the accession to BRIC South Africa.
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