Security Officials Discuss Multipolar World Order At Moscow Forum

 KUALA LUMPUR, May 29 (Bernama) -- Security officials from Russia, China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Kazakhstan, and Vietnam discussed the formation of a multipolar world, strengthening trust between states, and developing common rules for emerging technologies.

The discussion involving heads of security councils and senior representatives took place at the 14th International Meeting of High Representatives Responsible for Security Issues on Thursday as part of the International Security Forum in Moscow, TV BRICS reported.

Russia’s Secretary of the Security Council Sergei Shoigu presented a series of initiatives to strengthen coordination between states, as well as protect international law.

"In order to strengthen coordination between countries of the Global South and East, the following is important: to comprehensively reinforce the central coordinating role of the United Nations (UN), to support the Group of Friends in Defence of the Charter of the United Nations established on Russia’s initiative, and to avoid provoking contradictions, disagreements, and confrontation in relations between countries of the Global South and East,” he said.

Shoigu also highlighted initiatives by Russian President Vladimir Putin to form a Greater Eurasian Partnership and an architecture of collective security on the Eurasian continent, stressing their importance under current conditions.

Moscow also called on partners to avoid taking steps aimed at enhancing their own security at the expense of the security of other states, while increasing foreign policy coordination and cooperation within BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), and other organisations of Global Majority countries.

Meanwhile, Chen Wenqing, Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China (CPC), recalled the initiatives on global development, security, civilisation, and governance put forward by President Xi Jinping.

“China is actively working on developing peace initiatives, and the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence proposed by China have been incorporated into international documents and have received broad recognition from the international community, making an indelible historical contribution to the progress of humanity,” he said.

-- BERNAMA