The event brings together participants from 18 countries with the aim of debating the geopolitical relevance of BRICS and its Civil Council in the current international scenario. It has been organised by the BRICS Civil Council, the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, ALBA Movements and the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement of Brazil. The debates will revolve around two main themes: multipolarity and the financial architecture.
According to a note sent to our editorial office, during the first day the conference titled «From Economic Cooperation to Building Multipolarity» took place, followed by the panel «The New World Order, Hegemonic Disputes and Geopolitical Reconfiguration», in which Katia Aruca Chaple, an official from the International Relations Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), intervened.
Aruca Chaple highlighted in her speech that the strengthening of BRICS is indispensable for achieving a new just, democratic and equitable international order, capable of overcoming multidimensional crises. Likewise, she referred to Cuba’s activism in the various spaces of that mechanism in its capacity as a partner country, underlined the importance of continuing to strengthen political coordination within BRICS and called for unity among left-wing and progressive forces and movements.
Furthermore, she detailed the impacts of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States, unprecedentedly tightened by the Donald Trump administration, and reiterated firm solidarity with the sister Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and with the popular, military and police unity led by President Nicolás Maduro, as well as with the Palestinian people, whose delegation was also present at the event.
The representative of the Cuban Workers’ Union (CTC), Gertrudis Simon, conveyed the firm and fraternal greetings from the President of the Organising Commission of the 22nd CTC Congress, Osnay Miguel Colina Rodríguez and the National Trade Unions.
She mentioned the challenge for the workers’ organisation in the process towards the 22nd Congress of invigorating its mobilising capacity to reconcile the country’s interests and those of the working class in individually and collectively achieving the development of the production of goods and services, countering media and subversive campaigns, social indiscipline, corruption, crime, illegalities and any manifestation or behaviour incompatible with the socialist character of the Revolution.
The Cuban delegation is headed by the Communist Party of Cuba and also includes, besides the trade union representation, officials from the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, the Federation of Cuban Women and members of the Network of Intellectuals in Defence of Humanity.
In that context, the Cuban delegation held bilateral exchanges with representatives from Venezuela, China, Russia, Indonesia, Palestine, Uruguay, South Africa and other countries attending the People’s Summit.
