MOSCOW, December 26. /TASS/. Events like the BRICS Media Summit organized by TASS in September 2024 provide alternative information and should be held regularly, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with Russian and foreign media outlets on Thursday.
"We are interested in further strengthening media cooperation within BRICS. In September, during Russia's chairmanship in the association, a BRICS Media Summit was held in Moscow, organized by the Russian news agency TASS with the support of the Chinese side. Representatives of 60 media outlets from 45 countries attended the meeting. In October, Kazan Federal University became a venue for a roundtable called the BRICS Media Dialogue. I am sure that such events should be held regularly and conducted more often," the minister said.
Such formats help to "establish alternative platforms that provide access to information for the population of the global South, global East, and interested citizens of Western countries." "More and more people would like to know the truth about what is happening outside the European Union and NATO," Lavrov added.
According to him, such formats "really create alternative platforms for access to information for the population of the global South, the global East, and interested citizens of Western countries." "And there are more and more of them who would like to know the truth about what is happening outside the European Union and NATO," Lavrov added.
"Too many rumors and deliberate fakes" about BRICS activities are spread in the West today to dissuade the countries of the global South from the association, Lavrov noted. Raising awareness of the principles on which BRICS operates is of great importance, he added.
About the BRICS Media Summit
The BRICS Media Summit was held from September 13 to 17 in Moscow. The summit was attended by heads and leading specialists of more than 60 media outlets from 45 countries.
The BRICS Media Summit was held for the first time as a new format of the BRICS Media Forum, a non-governmental, non-profit platform for dialogue between leading media outlets of the BRICS member states. The BRICS Media Forum was established in 2015 at the initiative of Xinhua News Agency and has been organized in a country that holds BRICS presidency ever since.