It is important that BRICS countries support each other on issues concerning core interests, practice true multilateralism, safeguard  justice, fairness and solidarity and reject hegemony, bullying and  division. This year, we have held the Foreign Ministers’ Meeting and the  Meeting of High Representatives on National Security, deepened cooperation on counter-terrorism, cybersecurity and other issues,  enhanced coordination at the United Nations and other multilateral  institutions, and spoke out for justice on the international stage.

Not long ago, I put forward the Global Security Initiative (GSI), which advocates a vision of common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security, follows the philosophy that humanity is an indivisible  security community, and aims to create a new path to security that  features dialogue over confrontation, partnership over alliance and  win-win over zero-sum. China would like to work with BRICS partners to  operationalize the GSI and bring more stability and positive energy to the world.

Second, we need to uphold cooperation to boost development and jointly tackle risks and challenges. The combination of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine crisis has  resulted in disruptions to global industrial and supply chains, sustained hikes of commodity prices, and weaker international monetary  and financial systems. All these have cast shadows over development worldwide, and emerging markets and developing countries bear the brunt.  But just as a crisis may bring chaos, it can also spur change. A lot will ride on how we handle the crisis.