BRICS Business Forum

The forum is taking place in Moscow ahead of the BRICS Summit, which will be held in Kazan on October 22-24 and will include the new participants in the association for the first time. On January 1, 2024, Egypt, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia became full participants in BRICS alongside Brazil, India, China, Russia and South Africa.

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President of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Sergei Katyrin: Mr President,

Colleagues, friends,

I would like to report that the annual meeting of the BRICS Business Council was held yesterday with the participation of the Council's national representatives. During the meeting, my colleagues and I approved the annual report, which reflects our performance over the past year, as well as the most relevant proposals from the BRICS business community on further deepening market integration and trade and economic cooperation within the association. This document will be handed over to the heads of BRICS states at the summit in Kazan.

Today, we are holding this year's BRICS Business Forum, which is a key annual event.

The forum has brought together over 1,000 representatives of the business community, including heads of companies, associations, unions of entrepreneurs, and chambers of commerce and industry from the BRICS countries. We plan to discuss cooperation in finance and investment, transport and logistics, agriculture, information and food security, and sustainable development. We also plan to congratulate the winners of the BRICS international competition of best practices and the BRICS Women's Startup Competition.

Mr President, on behalf of all the participants at the forum, I would like to thank you for personally attending this meeting, for speaking at this forum, and I ask you to take the floor for your welcoming remarks.

President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Ladies and gentlemen, friends,

I am sincerely delighted to welcome everyone to the BRICS Business Forum.

I would like to note the wide representation of participants in this hall. We have leading business representatives from every country in the BRICS group. Your companies have been successfully cooperating for a long time, implementing impressive joint projects across a variety of industries.

To be continued.

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