At the 2nd BRICS Forum on Traditional Values, held from September 15-17 in Brazil's capital, a list of 12 common values shared by the member states of the association was presented. The forum's organizers provided the details to the "African Initiative."
The approved list of values includes compassion, cultural sovereignty and equality of cultures, economic well-being and social justice, a multipolar world, health, a development orientation, responsibility for future generations, humanism and peacefulness, mutual respect, moderation and the avoidance of fanaticism, solidarity and unity, and a culture of integrity.
As noted by Dmitry Kuznetsov, a member of the State Duma's Committee on International Affairs and vice-president of the forum, understanding and relying on these shared values will allow BRICS cooperation to "reach a new level of success in a wide variety of fields."
"The economic, technological, social, and humanitarian interaction should receive an additional impulse, based on a common value foundation," the parliamentarian emphasized.
He stated that literary creativity plays a particularly important role in shaping these values. "It is writers who shape and formulate what we believe in, what we dream of, and what we hope for," he said, expressing gratitude to the Brazilian Academy of Letters, the Russian Union of Writers, and other organizations for their joint work within the framework of the BRICS Literary Prize.
The forum is expected to conclude with the signing of a declaration. Its first clause will formally record the common decision to recognize this list of shared BRICS values.
