BEIJING, May 19. /TASS/. Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday said BRICS countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - should help to stabilize international relations at a time of turbulence.

He made the statement in an address at a session of the BRICS foreign ministers’ meeting, which is taking place by video link.

"As a positive, inspiring and constructive force in the international community, the BRICS countries need to <…> take real action to promote peace and development, uphold fairness and justice, and advocate democracy and freedom, so as to inject stability and positive energy into international relations in a period of turbulence and transformation," Xi Jinping was quoted as saying by China’s Foreign Ministry.