The People’s Republic of China will host the virtual 14th BRICS Leaders’ Summit from June 23–24, 2022, and President Cyril Ramaphosa will represent South Africa.
The summit’s theme is “Foster High-quality BRICS Partnership: Usher in a New Era for Global Development,” and it will be presided over by President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China in his capacity as BRICS’s chair for 2022.
The BRICS High-Level Dialogue on Global Development and opening remarks, which are open to the media, are included in the program.
The President will deliver a pre-recorded message at the BRICS Business Forum’s opening ceremony today at 13:00 SAST in advance of the summit on Thursday.
The President will also take part in the BRICS High-Level Dialogue on Global Development on Friday and the BRICS Leaders’ Summit opening ceremony on Thursday.
Naledi Pandor, Minister of International Relations and Cooperation; Mondli Gungubele, Minister in the Presidency; Enoch Godongwana, Minister of Finance; Ebrahim Patel, Minister of Trade, Industry, and Competition; and Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, Minister of Small Business Development, will be part of the delegation led by President Ramaphosa.
Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa make up the BRICS, a grouping of five significant emerging economies that together account for about 41% of the world’s population, 26% of the planet’s land area across four continents, 25% of global GDP, and 20% of global trade.
The alliance was created as a forum for progressive, like-minded emerging markets and developing nations.
This organization is dedicated to changing the global political, economic, and financial system in order to make it more inclusive, equitable, democratic, and representative of developing nations.
The BRICS pillars of cooperation—political and security, economic and finance, social cooperation, and people-to-people partnership—will be the leaders’ main areas of focus, according to a statement from the Presidency.
The Chair of the BRICS Business Council, the Chair of the BRICS Women’s Business Alliance, and the President of the New Development Bank will also present reports to the summit.
The BRICS 2022 Beijing Declaration, which highlights the objectives of the Chinese chairship in 2022, will also be up for adoption at the summit.
The three pillars of BRICS cooperation—improving trust, communication, and coordination on international and regional issues; deepening practical cooperation in all fields; and enhancing dialogue and cooperation with other emerging markets and developing nations to broaden South-South cooperation for shared development and prosperity—are included in this list of priorities.
A stand-alone BRICS High-Level Meeting on Climate Change, the adoption of an Action Plan for the Implementation of the Agreement between the Governments of the BRICS States on Cooperation in the Field of Culture, and the adoption of a BRICS Digital Economy Partnership Framework are among the expected outcomes of this year’s summit, according to the Presidency.
A BRICS Strategy on Food Security Cooperation, a BRICS Initiative on Denial of Safe Haven to Corruption, a BRICS Initiative on Enhancing Supply Chain Cooperation, a BRICS Initiative on Denial of Trade and Investment for Sustainable Development, and BRICS Implementing Procedures of Joint Observation for the BRICS Remote Sensing Satellite Constellation are among the others.
The BRICS membership of South Africa, according to the Presidency, “allows the country to employ additional and powerful tools in its fight to address its domestic triple challenge of unemployment, poverty, and inequality through science, technology, and innovation, energy, health, and education cooperation, as well as through BRICS financing for infrastructure development, capacity building, research, educational and skilling, trade, investment, and tourism opportunities.”
In order to synchronize policies adopted in regional and international fora, particularly Africa’s Agenda 2063 and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, South Africa has made concerted efforts to put the African continent and the Global South on the agenda of BRICS.