Christine Bierre journalist, Paris Ladies and Gentlemen, This session of the conference will deal with the great infrastructure projects which are at the heart of the BRICS strategy, and in that context I will speak about the “Grand Design” of Eurasian development proposed in the Seventeenth Century by the great German philosopher, scientist and political […]
Stélios Kouloglou Journalist, Writer and Member of the European Parliament from Syriza Since it was elected in January, the Greek government has had to face a coup d’état being carried out in silence. The intent is to overthrow the new government and replace it with one which is docile to the creditors, and […]
Alain Corvez International Strategy Consultant. Former International Relations Consultant of the Defense and Interior Ministries, Paris. In his speech before the United Nations General Assembly on 24 September 2013, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani had some crucial things to say on how to improve relations among the nations of the world. Calling for moderation in […]
Jayshree Sengupta Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, India India occupies a strategic position in Asia. It is surrounded by China, Nepal, Pakistan and Bangladesh. To its north is Russia. As is well known—the Twentieth century was the American Century but the Twenty First century is going to be the Asian Century. But achieve it […]
Jean-François Di Meglio President ASIA Centre, Paris. Introduction: Until recent years, the question on the Chinese economy that left most audiences, even the best informed, silent and petrified, was: “what is China massively borrowing from abroad?” Since China is the world’s largest exporting nation and plays a key role in world trade, the best […]
Thank you, and I welcome you. I would like to preface my actual speech with a short report about what Mr. LaRouche had to say yesterday, because yesterday we had extremely important breaking developments. President Obama went to the Congress and tried to really threaten the Democratic Party members of the Congress, telling them […]
H.E. Ambassador H.H.S. Viswanathan Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research Foundation. Coordinator of all activities connected with BRICS and IBSA (India, Brazil, South Africa), New Delhi. Evolution It is well known that Jim O’Neill of Goldman Sachs, in a seminal paper in 2001 identified four countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China-BRIC) as the fastest growing large […]
Leonid Kadyshev Minister Councillor of the Russian Embassy in France. I don’t want to reduce my speech exclusively to the relationship between the BRICS and “The New Silk Road” project. First of all, because this project has many dimensions, including, among others, great opportunities for cooperation with the Eurasian Union, of which Russia’s membership […]