The eighth international scientific and expert forum "Primakov Readings" will start on Tuesday at the World Trade Center in Moscow. The main topic of discussion at the two-day event, attended by politicians, scientists, experts and representatives of business circles, will be the Eurasian dimension of the transformation of the world order.
Presidential Aide and Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the "Primakov Readings" Yuri Ushakov, Vice-Speaker of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev, President of the National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO RAS) Alexander Dynkin and the head of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Sergey Katyrin will address the forum participants with welcome speeches.
Seven working sessions, as well as the traditional speech of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, are scheduled. More than 50 leading foreign experts in the field of international security, world politics and economics from 18 countries and more than 400 representatives of the Russian scientific-expert community, government, political and business circles will participate in the event. The event is organized by IMEMO RAS and will be supported by the Presidential Grants Foundation, the Primakov Center for Foreign Policy Cooperation, the Center for International Trade, and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation.
Cooperation and security in Eurasia
The declared topic of the forum is designed to address the acceleration of global political processes in 2022. One of them is the crisis of the globalization model in which the central role is played by the Western countries. This trend has been outlined many times recently, including at the highest political level. At the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, President Vladimir Putin said that the rejection of globalization in favor of a multipolar model of growth is becoming more and more pronounced.
"We will still face many challenges, risks, and factors which today are difficult even to predict and foresee, but it is obvious that the rules of the new world order will be set by strong, sovereign states which do not move along the trajectory already planned by anyone," noted the head of state.
In this regard, the problems of cooperation in the Eurasian region are becoming more relevant. The participants of the "Primakov Readings" will discuss security issues in Eurasia in addition to strengthening and renewal of relations between states. As noted in the program of the forum, today "the system of interdependence of key world actors that has developed in recent decades is eroding, as well as the dominance of a particular group of countries in world politics is subject to erosion." This, in turn, raises questions of security of certain countries in Eurasia and the region as a whole.
Nuclear security issues will be discussed separately. Issues of nuclear risks in the context of the military-political crisis and the future of strategic stability will be at the center of the agenda here. Moscow has repeatedly emphasized that it will be ready for the renewal of the dialogue with the US on strategic stability, but, as stressed by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, the conversation is possible only "on the principle of the balance of interests, looking for common denominators" and without "unilateral imposition".
Opportunities for Russia
Several sessions at the "Primakov Readings" will be devoted to Russia's interaction with its partners. On the first day, the forum participants will discuss the prospects, opportunities and risks brought to the relations between Moscow and Beijing by the decisions of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China.
A separate topic will be the possibility of Russia-India interaction in the emerging polycentric world. According to Moscow's characterization, the countries are linked by a particularly privileged strategic partnership. "We have a special relationship with India, caused or built on the foundation of very close, allied relations for many, many decades," Putin stressed in October. - We have never had any <...> difficult issues with India, we have always only supported each other. This is what is happening now and I am sure it will continue to be so in the future."
On the second day of the "Primakov Readings" a special session will be devoted to the interaction between Russia and Turkey against the backdrop of a notable increase in Ankara's foreign policy efforts. Russia and Turkey maintain active ties at various levels. Ankara is mediating the realization of the grain deal; according to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, his country is working on preparations for the hub through which gas will be supplied to Europe from Russia. The idea of its creation was expressed by the Russian president earlier at the "Russian Energy Week" forum. The intensity of cooperation between the two countries provides rich material for discussing its prospects and possible challenges that the transformation of the world brings.
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Based on materials from TASS