On July 3-4, 2024, the BRICS Civil Forum took place in Moscow. More than 650 people took part in the forum - representatives of the civil society of the BRICS countries and invited countries of the world majority.

The forum was preceded by a lot of preparatory work. Nine working groups were created, headed by co-chairs - representatives of Russia as the chairing country and the BRICS countries. Each working group, as a result of face-to-face, videoconferences and correspondence discussions, developed and internally agreed upon its own position paper, which briefly and reasonably reflected the public opinion on the issues of the most concern to civil society on the BRICS agenda. Based on the provisions of these position documents, a final communiqué was drawn up and adopted, which was signed by:

From the Russian Federation

Alena PERYSHKINA, Co-Chair, Russian NGO group on BRICS and G20; Director, AIDS Infoshare Foundation

From the Federative Republic of Brazil

Fabiano MIELNICZUK, Professor, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul; Research Member of NEBRICS

From the People's Republic of China

LI Jun, Vice President, China NGO Network for International Exchanges (CNIE)

ZHU Guijie, Deputy Secretary General, China NGO Network for International Exchanges (CNIE)

From the Arab Republic of Egypt

Ahmed TAHER, Director of the Al-Khewar Center for Political and Media Research

Mohamed Salem SALAH, Member of the Board of Trustees of the Al-Khewar Foundation for Research and Humanitarian Studies, Chairman of the Eurasia and BRICS Forum

For the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

Fassikau Molla AMERA, Deputy Director General of the Office of Civil Society Organizations

From the Republic of India

Binod Singh AJATSHATRU, Director, BRICS Institute

From the Islamic Republic of Iran

Pir-Hossein KOLIVAND, President, Red Crescent Society of the Islamic Republic of Iran

From the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Ahmad ALMOHAYANI, economist and strategic forecasting consultant, Grogain Conculting

From the Republic of South Africa

Raymond MATLALA, founder and chairman of the BRICS South African Youth Association

From the United Arab Emirates

Hoda AL KHZAIMI, Founder and Director of the Center for Emerging Technologies and Accelerating

Advanced Research

Separate opinion

Sabyasachi SAHA (India), Associate Professor at the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), expressed a dissenting opinion and offered his own shorter version of the final communiqué.

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