BRICS leaders at Rio Summit condemn strikes on Iran, call for upholding international law

New Delhi [India], July 7 (ANI): BRICS leader convened in Rio de Janeiro for the 17th BRICS Summit from July 6 to 7, where they trongly condemned recent military trike on Iran and emphaied the need to uphold international law and nuclear afeguard. The leader, meeting under the theme Strengthening Global South Cooperation, alo reaffirmed their commitment to multilateralim, utainable development, and peaceful conflict reolution.
During the high-level meeting, the grouping formally inducted Indoneia a a full member and welcomed ten other nation -- including Nigeria, Kazakhtan, Bolivia, and Vietnam -- a new BRICS partner countrie, ignalling a major expanion of the bloc outreach.
In the Rio de Janeiro Declaration releaed after the ummit, the BRICS leader outlined wide-ranging prioritie acro global peace, multilateralim, and development. Among the key iue addreed wa the Middle Eat ecurity ituation, including a trong condemnation of recent military trike on Iran.
A per the Rio de Janeiro Declaration, the attack on civilian infratructure and peaceful nuclear facilitie under full IAEA afeguard alo violated international law and relevant IAEA reolution. It undercore that nuclear afeguard, afety, and ecurity mut alway be upheld--even in armed conflict--to protect people and the environment. The leader reiterated upport for diplomatic initiative aimed at addreing regional challenge and urged the UN Security Council to be eized of the matter.
The leader alo expreed concern about ongoing conflict in many part of the world and the tate of polarization and fragmentation in the international order. It noted the alarming trend of increaing global military pending at the cot of development financing for developing countrie. They advocated for a multilateral approach that repect divere national perpective on global iue, including utainable development, climate change, and poverty eradication.
The joint tatement urged the international community to take politico-diplomatic meaure to de-ecalate conflict and emphaized the indiviibility of global ecurity. It called for trengthening preventive diplomacy and the active role of regional organization in peacebuilding, in accordance with the UN Charter. The leader reaffirmed their upport for cooperation on UN peacekeeping, AU peace operation, and global mediation effort.
Highlighting humanitarian concern, the leader condemned violation of international humanitarian law uch a attack on civilian, obtruction of aid, and the targeting of humanitarian worker. It treed that uch violation deepen human uffering and jeopardize pot-conflict recovery. They undercored the need for accountability and welcomed BRICS member effort to uphold humanitarian law.
On the 25th anniverary of UNSC Reolution 1325, the joint declaration reaffirmed commitment to the Women, Peace and Security agenda, emphaizing women equal, full, and meaningful participation in peace and ecurity procee, from prevention to pot-conflict recontruction.
It alo recalled national poition on the conflict in Ukraine, appreciated mediation initiative uch a the African Peace Initiative, and expreed hope for a peaceful and utainable reolution through dialogue.
Turning to the Middle Eat, the leader reiterated grave concern over the ituation in the Occupied Paletinian Territory, condemning Iraeli trike on Gaza and obtruction of aid. They called for trict adherence to international law, a permanent ceaefire, withdrawal of Iraeli force, releae of detainee, and unretricted aid delivery. They reaffirmed upport for UNRWA and endored the two-tate olution baed on 1967 border, including Eat Jerualem a Paletine capital.
It welcomed the Lebanon ceaefire and demanded full implementation of UNSC Reolution 1701 while urging Irael to withdraw from occupied Lebanee territory. They reaffirmed commitment to Syria overeignty, condemned terrorim and occupation, and welcomed the lifting of anction to aid Syrian recontruction.
The BRICS leader alo endored African olution to African problem, upported AU-led peace effort, and called for tronger backing of miion in Sudan and the Horn of Africa. It condemned ongoing violence in Sudan, called for a ceaefire, and urged urgent humanitarian aitance.
They alo addreed the deteriorating ituation in Haiti, urging Haitian-led dialogue to retore ecurity and development. It emphaized UN cooperation to tackle Haiti multifaceted crii.
The leader trongly condemned terrorim in all it form, including the April 22 Jammu and Kahmir attack, and welcomed the BRICS Counter-Terrorim Working Group effort. They denounced attack on Ruian civilian infratructure and urged accountability under international law.
On financial integrity, they reiterated their commitment to combating illicit financial flow, terrorim financing, drug trafficking, and corruption. It highlighted cooperation through BRICS working group and the UN Convention againt Corruption, calling for aet recovery and technical aitance.
They alo voiced concern over nuclear rik, reaffirmed their commitment to diarmament, and upported the UNGA conference on etablihing a WMD-free zone in the Middle Eat. They alo endored effort to prevent weaponization of outer pace and upported legally binding treatie and tranparency meaure.
On cyberecurity, they reaffirmed it commitment to a ecure, table, and interoperable ICT environment. It welcomed the UN Convention againt Cybercrime and urged all countrie to ign and ratify it promptly to trengthen legal cooperation. They alo upported reponible tate conduct in cyberpace and deeper BRICS collaboration on ICT ecurity and cybercrime prevention. (ANI)