Information Bulletin of the BRICS Trade Union Forum
Issue 46.2020
2020.11.09 — 2020.11.15
International relations
Foreign policy in the context of BRICS
Vladimir Putin to hold BRICS online-conference on November 17 (Владимир Путин проведет 17 ноября онлайн-конференцию БРИКС) / Russia, November, 2020
Keywords: vladimir_putin, summit
2020-11-09
2020-11-09
Russia
Source: tvbrics.com
President of Russia Vladimir Putin under the country's BRICS Chairmanship 2020 will host Head of States of Brazil, China, India and South Africa via video conference on 17 November, Trinity Mirror reports. The meeting was originally planned to take place in St. Petersburg in July but was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
BRICS leaders will focus on significant and complicated issues or questions relating to geopolitical to socio-economic spheres and transformations of the global landscape in the 21st century. The meeting will also adopt a working document that will further reinforce the position and development of the group.
Russia has agreed to strengthen and promote strategic partnership in all key areas of BRICS activities, such as politics and security, economy and finance, educational and cultural ties. The theme of the Meeting of the Leaders of BRICS is "BRICS Partnership for Global Stability, Shared Security and Innovative Growth." The member countries will discuss the enhancement of their countries' trade and economic collaboration as well as coordination on international stages or platforms. Russia, in fact, plans to end its chairmanship with a strong set of new agreements, including the already agreed upon BRICS Anti-Terrorism Strategy and the updated Strategy for Economic Partnership 2025. This document defines guidelines and priorities for cooperation and gives a new impetus to development of trade and investment cooperation among the five countries.
Despite the current global situation due to the spread of the coronavirus infection, the activities under the Russian BRICS Chairmanship in 2020 have been carried out in a consistent manner. Since January 2020, a number of events have already been organized, including via videoconferencing.
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov reiterated that deepening the strategic partnership in BRICS is one of Russia's foreign policy priorities.
As stipulated by the guidelines, Russia took over the rotating presidency of the BRICS from Brazil. Since its establishment, BRICS has come a long way from an informal forum for exchanging views on current issues on the international agenda to an absolutely mature and stable network of multilateral interactions on diverse issues of international and domestic interest involving the five BRICS countries.
The BRICS is known as an influential bloc that represents over 3.6 billion people, or half of the world's population. The BRICS countries have a combined GDP of $ 16.6 trillion. BRICS has grown into multilateral structure forum and become an organisation pursuing fair, democratic and multipolar world order.
Over the past decade, the BRICS group (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) has proved to be a relevant and well-respected format of cooperation. The BRICS countries maintain solidarity in strengthening collective principles in global affairs; they advocate respect for the sovereignty and sovereign equality of all states, and are deeply convinced that conflicts should be resolved only through peaceful means. The BRICS is an influential bloc that collectively defends the principles of a more just world order based on respect for norms and principles of International Laws and the United Nations Charter.
Source: tvbrics.com
President of Russia Vladimir Putin under the country's BRICS Chairmanship 2020 will host Head of States of Brazil, China, India and South Africa via video conference on 17 November, Trinity Mirror reports. The meeting was originally planned to take place in St. Petersburg in July but was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
BRICS leaders will focus on significant and complicated issues or questions relating to geopolitical to socio-economic spheres and transformations of the global landscape in the 21st century. The meeting will also adopt a working document that will further reinforce the position and development of the group.
Russia has agreed to strengthen and promote strategic partnership in all key areas of BRICS activities, such as politics and security, economy and finance, educational and cultural ties. The theme of the Meeting of the Leaders of BRICS is "BRICS Partnership for Global Stability, Shared Security and Innovative Growth." The member countries will discuss the enhancement of their countries' trade and economic collaboration as well as coordination on international stages or platforms. Russia, in fact, plans to end its chairmanship with a strong set of new agreements, including the already agreed upon BRICS Anti-Terrorism Strategy and the updated Strategy for Economic Partnership 2025. This document defines guidelines and priorities for cooperation and gives a new impetus to development of trade and investment cooperation among the five countries.
Despite the current global situation due to the spread of the coronavirus infection, the activities under the Russian BRICS Chairmanship in 2020 have been carried out in a consistent manner. Since January 2020, a number of events have already been organized, including via videoconferencing.
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov reiterated that deepening the strategic partnership in BRICS is one of Russia's foreign policy priorities.
As stipulated by the guidelines, Russia took over the rotating presidency of the BRICS from Brazil. Since its establishment, BRICS has come a long way from an informal forum for exchanging views on current issues on the international agenda to an absolutely mature and stable network of multilateral interactions on diverse issues of international and domestic interest involving the five BRICS countries.
The BRICS is known as an influential bloc that represents over 3.6 billion people, or half of the world's population. The BRICS countries have a combined GDP of $ 16.6 trillion. BRICS has grown into multilateral structure forum and become an organisation pursuing fair, democratic and multipolar world order.
Over the past decade, the BRICS group (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) has proved to be a relevant and well-respected format of cooperation. The BRICS countries maintain solidarity in strengthening collective principles in global affairs; they advocate respect for the sovereignty and sovereign equality of all states, and are deeply convinced that conflicts should be resolved only through peaceful means. The BRICS is an influential bloc that collectively defends the principles of a more just world order based on respect for norms and principles of International Laws and the United Nations Charter.
The Results of the Work of the BRICS Competition Authorities in 2020 Were Summed Up (Подведены итоги работы конкурентных ведомств БРИКС в 2020 году) / Russia, November, 2020
Keywords: fas, off_docs
2020-11-13
2020-11-13
Russia
Source: en.fas.gov.ru
Antimonopoly provisions in strategic documents of BRICS, work in digital, pharmaceutical and automobile markets, exchange trade, creation of the International BRICS Competition Law and Policy Centre and the cooperation within the international organizations such as UNCTAD are the main issues in the agenda of the meeting of the BRICS Coordination Committee on Antimonopoly Policy.
The meeting took place on November 12 in the format of a video conference. "During the spread of coronavirus infection, we have found new forms of work and are developing remote interaction, which allows us to be always effective," noted Andrey Tsarikovskiy, Stats-Secretary, Deputy Head of the FAS Russia. He also informed the BRICS colleagues about the latest structural changes in the FAS Russia: on November 11 Maxim Shaskolsky was appointed as the Head of the regulator.
Within the meeting, the BRICS Competition Authorities emphasized the progressive development of cooperation between in the antimonopoly sphere and the existing formats of joint work, as well as summed up the activities of the BRICS Working Groups for the research of competition issues in socially significant markets.
Speaking about the BRICS Competition Authority Report on Digital Markets, which was jointly prepared under the leadership of the CADE and presented at the Sixth BRICS Competition Conference, the Deputy Head of the Russian Antimonopoly Authority Andrey Tsyganov noted: "This Report may be updated to reflect the new realities of the coronavirus pandemic, which may highlight the challenges faced by competition authorities in the increasing role of digital platforms."
During the meeting, the participants also touched upon the topic of organized trade. "Competition authorities of the BRICS countries need to continue to broadcast the importance of expanding cooperation on the development of competition, an important instrument of which is the exchange," Andrey Tsarikovskiy stressed. "At the same time, as the FAS practice shows, exchange trading should remain in the field of view of competition authorities from the point of view of antimonopoly law enforcement".
As a reminder, in 2020 the FAS Russia uncovered the first cartel on the exchange: the largest Russian fuel traders Solid-Commodity Markets JSC and A-Oil LLC were found guilty of cartel conspiracy in the exchange trading of oil products.
In continuation of the discussion, the participants emphasized the successful results of the Eighth United Nations Conference to Review All Aspects of the Set of Multilaterally Agreed Equitable Principles and Rules for the Control of Restrictive Business Practices and discussed further possible directions of the UNCTAD Working Group on cross-border cartels.
The separate item of the agenda of the meeting was the joint work with the BRICS Competition Authorities and the BRICS International Competition Law and Policy Centre and the ways forward in this direction.
In conclusion of the meeting, the State Administrative for Market Regulation of the People's Republic of China updated the status of the preparations of the VII BRICS Competition Conference to be held in 2021 in China.
Source: en.fas.gov.ru
Antimonopoly provisions in strategic documents of BRICS, work in digital, pharmaceutical and automobile markets, exchange trade, creation of the International BRICS Competition Law and Policy Centre and the cooperation within the international organizations such as UNCTAD are the main issues in the agenda of the meeting of the BRICS Coordination Committee on Antimonopoly Policy.
The meeting took place on November 12 in the format of a video conference. "During the spread of coronavirus infection, we have found new forms of work and are developing remote interaction, which allows us to be always effective," noted Andrey Tsarikovskiy, Stats-Secretary, Deputy Head of the FAS Russia. He also informed the BRICS colleagues about the latest structural changes in the FAS Russia: on November 11 Maxim Shaskolsky was appointed as the Head of the regulator.
Within the meeting, the BRICS Competition Authorities emphasized the progressive development of cooperation between in the antimonopoly sphere and the existing formats of joint work, as well as summed up the activities of the BRICS Working Groups for the research of competition issues in socially significant markets.
Speaking about the BRICS Competition Authority Report on Digital Markets, which was jointly prepared under the leadership of the CADE and presented at the Sixth BRICS Competition Conference, the Deputy Head of the Russian Antimonopoly Authority Andrey Tsyganov noted: "This Report may be updated to reflect the new realities of the coronavirus pandemic, which may highlight the challenges faced by competition authorities in the increasing role of digital platforms."
During the meeting, the participants also touched upon the topic of organized trade. "Competition authorities of the BRICS countries need to continue to broadcast the importance of expanding cooperation on the development of competition, an important instrument of which is the exchange," Andrey Tsarikovskiy stressed. "At the same time, as the FAS practice shows, exchange trading should remain in the field of view of competition authorities from the point of view of antimonopoly law enforcement".
As a reminder, in 2020 the FAS Russia uncovered the first cartel on the exchange: the largest Russian fuel traders Solid-Commodity Markets JSC and A-Oil LLC were found guilty of cartel conspiracy in the exchange trading of oil products.
In continuation of the discussion, the participants emphasized the successful results of the Eighth United Nations Conference to Review All Aspects of the Set of Multilaterally Agreed Equitable Principles and Rules for the Control of Restrictive Business Practices and discussed further possible directions of the UNCTAD Working Group on cross-border cartels.
The separate item of the agenda of the meeting was the joint work with the BRICS Competition Authorities and the BRICS International Competition Law and Policy Centre and the ways forward in this direction.
In conclusion of the meeting, the State Administrative for Market Regulation of the People's Republic of China updated the status of the preparations of the VII BRICS Competition Conference to be held in 2021 in China.
Harsh Vardhan Calls For Multilateral Cooperation Amid COVID; Seeks Help Of BRICS Countries (Харш Вардхан призывает к многостороннему сотрудничеству в условиях COVID; Ищет помощи стран БРИКС) / India, November, 2020
Keywords: quotation, top_level_meeting, covid-19
2020-11-14
2020-11-14
India
Source: www.republicworld.com
Union Minister for Science and Technology Dr Harsh Vardhan on Friday said multilateral cooperation is required to overcome challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Science, Technology and Innovation Ministers of the BRICS grouping (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) met
Source: www.republicworld.com
Union Minister for Science and Technology Dr Harsh Vardhan on Friday said multilateral cooperation is required to overcome challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Science, Technology and Innovation Ministers of the BRICS grouping (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) met