All-Chinese Confederation of Trade Unions (ACFTU)’s Address at BRICS Trade Union Forum, Durban, 23-25th March 2013 All-Chinese Confederation of Trade Unions (ACFTU), 24 March 2013 Brothers and sisters, Respectable Union Leaders, Good afternoon! I’m highly delighted to be here at this Forum held in this beautiful city of Durban. Let me begin by, on behalf of Chinese trade unions and my Chinese colleague, saying a big thank you towards our host, COSATU, for your preparation and hard work leading up to this meeting. As the second BRICS Trade Union Forum, this meeting bears great significance and has far-reaching influence. According to the proposed program of this Forum, besides the formalization of a coordination structure of BRICS Trade Union Forum, we will also discuss overriding subjects of economy and trade among BRICS countries, economic justice in world trade system, our approach and policies to development in favour of economic models of sustainability, decent work and job creation agenda, transformation of international trade union movement and strengthening union capability of defending workers’ rights and interests. We believe, with concerted efforts, we, the participating unions will better coordinate our positions for reaching consensus, which will help this Forum yield positive results. This BRICS Summit and Trade Union Forum are convened at a time when the Chinese leadership transition was just completed several days ago. The fact that Mr. Xi Jinping will attend the BRICS Summit during his first foreign visit as President fully reveals the prominence given by the Chinese leaders to BRICS countries and this summit. By taking this opportunity, the BRICS countries is bound to further boost their mutually beneficial cooperation, thus laying a solid foundation for and further giving impetus to the exchange and cooperation among their unions. We further believe that, as the unions of rapidly-growing emerging markets, we are in a position to articulate the urgent needs and shard aspirations of the unions and workers of BRICS countries and other developing world in an objective and just manner. It is in our common interest to call for the incorporation of the profound changes of the world economic landscape into the global economic governance system, and increase the voice and representation of emerging markets and other developing countries and their unions, so as to ensure greater balance in world economy, better global economic governance and more democratic international relations. Chinese unions share with other BRICS trade unions the idea that it’s the union’s mission and duty to draw the attention of BRICS heads of states to labour issues. Through this forum, we hope to strengthen the ties among BRICS unions, improve our dialogue, exchange and cooperation mechanism, and make our due contributions to sustainable economic growth, social progress and defence of workers’ rights and interests of the emerging markets, including BRICS countries. We are convinced that by working together, BRICS Trade Union Forum will be a success. Thank you all!
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