Addressing a joint meeting of high-ranking security officials from BRICS and the Global South, held in Russia’s St. Petersburg on Wednesday, Ali Akbar Ahmadian shared the idea of creation of a coalition of BRICS states against sanctions.
He said it is necessary for the BRICS and the Global South countries to join hands to stand against the sanctions and ensure the economic, energy, food, financial, maritime, cultural, psychological, cyber, environmental, health and international security.
Collective action can allow the BRICS and the Global South nations to usher in structural changes and create effectual and modern institutions on the basis of new order, such as an anti-sanctions coalition, to establish economic, trade and financial security, provide financial supervision, and guarantee independent and non-political data governance, he added.
Pointing to the growing global enthusiasm for a multilateral world, even among the US allies, Ahmadian said many existing structures and organizations have been held hostage by the US for years.
The current international bodies lack the competence to establish sustainable peace and stability in the world and follow the American strategies to promote terrorism and sanctions and trigger tensions across the world, the Iranian official said.
The meeting of BRICS and BRICS Plus high-level security officials is held at the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library of St. Petersburg on September 10-12.