PARIS, November 23. /TASS/. Russia is successfully building the joint work with foreign delegations at the UNESCO platform in the BRICS partnership format, which sparks great interest of other countries, Russia’s Permanent Representative to UNESCO Rinat Alyautdinov said.
"Here we work both in the CIS format and the work in the format of BRICS partner countries agreed on at the summit in Kazan has intensified. Other countries take great interest in this format. We see it here as well, feel it on the side of many delegations, which ask questions, including not simply about the integration itself, but about the fact that this integration may well manifest itself in UNESCO," he said.
Russia’s presidency of the integration will pass to Brazil this year, the diplomat said. Alyautdinov expressed hope that within UNESCO first achievements will already be demonstrated next year and stressed the importance of efforts and cohesiveness with the Global South countries, particularly in the context of biased activities of the UNESCO secretariat, which he said is influenced by the West.
"We have to demonstrate our determination and our belief in the possibility of building this new world with common efforts of countries interested in protection of their sovereignty, interested in equality, interested in fair, open and equal cooperation," he said.