A joint communiqué on the BRIC [Brazil, Russia, India, China] meeting set forth coordinated positions on a wide range of pressing international issues that put the group at cross purposes with the United States.It stressed the need for “building a more democratic international system founded on the rule of law and multilateral diplomacy” with the United Nations “playing the central role.”
Read on at The Hindu.
Turns out the Second World is to be taken quite seriously. As per the point of this book, The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order, by Parag Khana. See the interview with Charlie Rose for the May 15, 2008 program.
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