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Comments Made by Russian President Vladimir Putin During the 2024 BRICS Summit

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Dallas Hughes

Oct 24, 2024

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Below are some of the comments made by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a news conference following the BRICS summit in Kazan:


ABOUT DPRK TROOPS AND ESCALATION IN UKRAINE

"Let's start with the first part of your question (about the photos showing the presence of North Korean troops on Russian territory). Photos are a serious thing, if there are photos, then they reflect something.


I would like to draw your attention to the fact that it was not Russia's actions that led to the escalation in Ukraine, but the 2014 coup d'etat, supported primarily by the United States. It was even publicly announced how much money the then US administration spent on preparing and organizing this coup d'etat. Isn't this a path to escalation?


And then we were deceived for eight years when they said that they wanted to resolve the conflict in Ukraine peacefully through the Minsk agreements. Later, and we heard this too, a number of leaders of European countries said directly that they were deceiving us because they used this time to arm the Ukrainian army. Isn't that so? It is. Now the next steps of escalation were that Western countries began to actively arm the Kiev regime.


What has it come to? To the direct participation of NATO military personnel in this conflict. Because we know what and how is done when unmanned marine vehicles are launched in the Black Sea. We know who is present there, from which European NATO countries, and how they carry out this work. The same applies to instructors, military personnel - not mercenaries, but military personnel. The same applies to the use of high-precision weapons, modern ones.

Including missiles such as Atacms, Storm Shadow, and so on. Ukrainian military personnel cannot do this without space reconnaissance, target designation and Western-made software. And only with the direct participation of NATO officers.


As for our relations with the DPRK. Today, I think, our treaty on strategic partnership has just been ratified. There is Article 4. We have never doubted that the North Korean leadership takes our agreements seriously. But what and how we will do is our business. Within the framework of this article. First, we need to conduct appropriate negotiations regarding the implementation of Article 4 of this treaty. But we are in contact with our North Korean friends and we will see how this process develops."


ON THE SETTLEMENT OF THE CRISIS AROUND UKRAINE

"Everyone is determined to end the conflict as quickly as possible and preferably by peaceful means. You know that China and Brazil have put forward an initiative at the General Assembly in New York. Many countries are participating. BRICS supports this initiative. And we, in turn, are grateful to our partners for their attention to this conflict and for seeking ways to resolve it.


ON TRUMP'S ALLEGED THREATS TO STRIKE CENTER OF MOSCOW

"The first part - is it possible to threaten? You can threaten anyone. There is no point in threatening Russia, because it only encourages us. But I do not recall such a conversation with Mr. Trump. Now is a very acute phase of the election campaign in the United States, and I suggest not to take statements of this kind seriously.

But what Mr. Trump said recently, and what I heard, he said about the desire to do everything to end the conflict in Ukraine. I think he says this sincerely, and statements of this kind, no matter who makes them, we certainly welcome.


ABOUT CONTACTS WITH TRUMP

As for contacts with Mr. Trump. This is something that has been constantly discussed for more than one year. At one time, we were accused of this, and Trump himself of being somehow connected with Russia. Then, as a result of an investigation in the United States itself, everyone came to the conclusion, including in Congress, in my opinion, that this was complete nonsense, that nothing like this had ever happened. It did not happen before, and it does not happen now. And how Russian-American relations will be built after the elections, this depends first of all on the United States. If the United States is open to building normal relations with Russia, then we will do the same. If they do not want to, then we do not have to. But this choice is up to the future administration."


ABOUT THE ISOLATION OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

You know, we are receiving different signals from our Western partners regarding possible contacts.

We did not close ourselves off from these contacts. And when we hear that we refuse, I refuse such conversations, contacts, including with European leaders, I want to tell you that this is a lie. We did not refuse and are not refusing now. Someone wants to renew relations with us - please, we talk about it all the time, but we do not impose ourselves. As you can see, we live, work, develop normally, our economy is growing.


ABOUT THE COMMON PAYMENT SYSTEM OF BRICS

As for SWIFT and some alternatives... We have not created and are not creating alternatives for anyone. But, nevertheless, the issue is very important today. One of the key problems is the problem of settlements. And therefore we are following the path of using national currencies - this is well known. As for settlement systems, we use the already created Russian system for exchanging financial information, created by the Central Bank of Russia.


Other BRICS member countries also have their own systems, we will use them too, we are already using them and will develop this interaction. But we are not inventing any separate common system yet. What we have is, in principle, sufficient. We only need to make appropriate decisions at the administrative level in a timely manner. We discussed this with our colleagues and will follow this path.


ABOUT INTERBANK COMMUNICATION IN BRICS

We will continue to strengthen interbank communication and work on creating mechanisms for mutual settlements in national currencies that are independent of external risks.


ABOUT OPEN BRICS

In Kazan, we confirmed that BRICS is not a closed format. It is open to all who share the values ​​of BRICS, and its members are ready to work on finding joint solutions without external dictates or attempts to impose only some narrow approaches on anyone.

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