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New Foreign Minister Sugiono in Russia for BRICS summit
Foreign Minister Sugiono is in Russia on Wednesday to attend the BRICS summit bloc of emerging economies, during which he will deliver a message of world peace and call for unity among the countries of the Global South.
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Foreign Minister Sugiono arrives at Kazan International Airport in Russia on Oct. 22, 2024. Sugiono will take part in the 16th BRICS summit in Kazan. (brics-russia2024.ru host photo agency/Alexander Vilf)
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oreign Minister Sugiono is in Russia on Wednesday to attend the BRICS summit bloc of emerging economies, during which he will deliver a message of world peace and call for unity among the countries of the Global South.
Some 36 countries are attending the summit, currently taking place in Kazan until Thursday. It is the first high-profile BRICS summit since a major expansion last year.
Sugiono took no time to make his first international appearance following his inauguration as the new foreign minister in the cabinet of President Prabowo Subianto on Monday. He arrived on Tuesday night in Kazan.
“In the summit, Indonesia will voice a message of peace and call for unity among developing countries and those of the Global South [and urge them] to increase solidarity and play an important role in creating a more inclusive, just and equal world order,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
Aside from the summit, Sugiono is also slated to conduct a series of bilateral meetings.
Sugiono, a politician from the President’s Gerindra Party, was appointed to lead the Foreign Ministry on Monday, despite not having a formal diplomatic background.
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