Highlights of Xi's remarks during 16th BRICS Summit

KAZAN, Russia, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping attended the 16th BRICS Summit from Tuesday to Thursday in Kazan, where he also had in-depth exchanges with world leaders on BRICS cooperation, bilateral relations and the current international situation.

The following are some of the highlights of Xi's remarks and statements.

ON GLOBAL SOUTH

-- The collective rise of the Global South is a distinctive feature of the great transformation across the world. Global South countries marching together toward modernization is monumental in world history and unprecedented in human civilization.

-- Standing at the forefront of the Global South, we should use our collective wisdom and strength, and stand up to our responsibility for building a community with a shared future for mankind.

-- We should strengthen global security governance, and explore solutions to address both symptoms and roots of hotspot issues.

-- The Global South emerges for development and prospers through development. We should make ourselves the main driving force for common development.

-- We should play an active and leading role in the global economic governance reform, and make development the core of international economic and trade agenda.

-- Diversity of civilization is the innate quality of the world. We should be advocates for exchanges among civilizations.

-- China will coordinate with others to form a Global South Think Tanks Alliance to promote people-to-people exchanges and experience-sharing in governance.

-- No matter how the international landscape evolves, we in China will always keep the Global South in our heart, and maintain our roots in the Global South.

-- We support more Global South countries in joining the cause of BRICS as full members, partner countries or in the "BRICS Plus" format so that we can combine the great strength of the Global South to build together a community with a shared future for mankind.

ON CHINA-INDIA RELATIONS

-- China and India should strengthen communication and cooperation, enhance strategic mutual trust, and facilitate each other's pursuit of development aspirations.

-- China-India relations are essentially a question of how the two large developing countries and neighbors, each with a 1.4-billion-strong population, treat each other.

-- The two sides should continue to uphold their important understandings, including that China and India are each other's development opportunity rather than threat, and cooperation partner rather than competitor.

-- The two countries should maintain a sound strategic perception of each other, and work together to find the right and bright path for big, neighboring countries to live in harmony and develop side by side.

ON CHINA-IRAN RELATIONS

-- No matter how the international and regional situation changes, China will unswervingly develop friendly cooperation with Iran.

-- The Chinese side supports Iran in safeguarding national sovereignty, security and national dignity, steadily advancing its own economic and social development, and improving and deepening good-neighborly and friendly relations with neighboring countries.

-- China is willing to strengthen cooperation with Iran within BRICS and other multilateral frameworks, further volume up the influence and voice of the Global South, and push forward the development of the international order in a more just and reasonable direction.

ON CHINA-EGYPT RELATIONS

-- China is willing to be a sincere friend that looks out for each other and a close partner for joint development with Egypt.

-- The two sides should continue to firmly support each other, consolidate political mutual trust, deepen practical cooperation, jointly build the Belt and Road with high quality, strengthen people-to-people and cultural exchanges, and push bilateral relations toward the goal of building a China-Egypt community with a shared future in the new era.

-- China appreciates Egypt's efforts to promote a ceasefire and end of war, and stands ready to strengthen coordination and cooperation with Egypt to jointly push for an early end to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the easing of the regional situation. ■