Refleksi : Brasilia, Rusia, India dan China adalah negeri-negeri Bric yaitu yang diperkirakan akan memainkan peranan penting baik ekonomi maupun politik dunia dalam abad 21.
Bagi NRKI, agaknya sudah puas dengan OIC ( baca: Oh I See) http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-02/16/c_13176950.htm BRIC to discuss coordination expansion at April summit English.news.cn 2010-02-16 15:41:38 BRASILIA, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- Brazil, Russia, India and China will seek to expand coordination beyond the economic realm at their second summit slated for April. The anticipated agenda of the summit, which will be held in Brasilia, was disclosed by Roberto Jaguaribe, assistant secretary-general for political affairs in the Brazilian foreign ministry. The Brazilian ambassador told Xinhua in an interview that the four countries, collectively known under their acronym BRIC, will continue their discussion that started with their inaugural summit held in June 2009 in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg. Jaguaribe had just returned from Russia, India and China, where he went to coordinate the preparation of the Brasilia summit. "BRIC is still a group without much consolidation, so it is good to have a perception of each country to make a satisfactory meeting for all. It is necessary to remember that BRIC is not a negotiating group, but a convergence group of four large countries of great importance and with increasing participation in several aspects of international relations," the ambassador said. To better understand the importance of the group, Jaguaribe said, an assessment of the global economy in the past eight years is needed. Such an assessment would reveal that it was the BRIC countries that had contributed toward half of the global growth during that period. "The agenda of the (Brasilia) summit is being defined, but it must be remembered that the BRIC was born with an objective perception of the financial market that the four BRIC countries would have an increasing weight on," the ambassador said. "Based on its 'birth' against the financial backdrop, it is natural that the economic-financial theme is to dominate the summit, as it did at the Yekaterinburg summit," he said. Jaguaribe added that there would be many more issues to explore, beyond the existing BRIC coordination among finance ministers and central bank governors. He said it is time for the group to define their cooperation toward specific and concrete lines in agriculture, energy and possibly in science and technology, apart from such major non-economic issues as the international debate on climate change. "We are now making room for the cooperation in agriculture and energy, which is so important for all at both BRIC meetings held at the ministerial level. And based on the Yekaterinburg resolution, we are opening a BRIC business forum, which is sure to draw the attention of many entrepreneurs in all countries," the ambassador said. The Brasilia summit will be an opportunity to advance efforts to establish an institutional mechanism for coordination among the four governments. "It is also important to begin to identify the form of action of the BRICs -- how they will act, what kind of institutionalization, how often they should meet and at what level. This issue may not be fully defined, but at each meeting there is a closer approach, and the specific nature of this mechanism will be configured," Jaguaribe said. "Brazil's relationship with China is very important strictly in the bilateral context, but in truth it transcends this dimension, because both countries are increasingly becoming important players in the international context," he told Xinhua. Brazil and China have a strategic dialogue on issues of mutual concern, and they have coordination on many fronts, particularly in the multilateral arena, the ambassador said. He named the BASIC grouping (Brazil, South Africa, India and China), climate change, the financial G20 and the G20 within the WTO (World Trade Organization) as examples. "There are many common interests. Beyond that, there is a strict bilateral relationship of great magnitude. China is the largest trading partner of Brazil, and both sides have great interest in expanding cooperation in all areas. For example, investments are not exploited to due extent," he said. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
