Lavrov Urges BRICS Partners to Boost Global Solidarity

NEW DELHI, May 15. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called on BRICS partners to strengthen solidarity on the global stage.

Speaking at the BRICS ministerial meeting in New Delhi, the Russian foreign minister emphasized "the importance of strengthening solidarity within BRICS in order to enhance coordination in multilateral forums."

"A positive example is the cooperation between our countries’ delegations at the 30th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, held last November in Belem, Brazil, where, largely thanks to the stance taken by the BRICS countries and like-minded nations, we managed to reach a balanced solution," he said at a plenary session titled 20 Years of BRICS: Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation, and Sustainability.

Lavrov said he was convinced that "only through active collective efforts can the BRICS countries ensure that their interests and, more broadly, the interests of the Global South and East are genuinely taken into account in leading multilateral forums, whether at the United Nations, the G20, the World Trade Organization, the World Health Organization, or other international bodies."