The BRICS Civil Society Forum has ended in Moscow: The participants adopted the final communique

The BRICS Civil Society Forum was held in Moscow on July 3-4. The forum was attended by more than 650 people - representatives of the public 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, which were headed by co–chairs - representatives of Russia as the chair country and the BRICS countries. As a result of face-to-face and correspondence discussions, each working group developed and internally agreed on its position paper, which briefly and reasonably reflected the opinion of the public on the issues of the BRICS agenda that most concern civil society. Based on the provisions of these position papers, a final communique was drawn up and adopted, which was signed:

From the Russian Federation

Alyona Peryshkina, Co-Chair of the Russian NGO group on BRICS and the Group of Twenty, Director of the AIDS Infosvyaz Foundation

From the Federal Republic of Brazil 

Fabiano Melniczuk, Professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

From the People's Republic of China 

Li Jun, Vice President of the Chinese NGO Network for International Exchanges

Zhu Guijie, Deputy Secretary General of the Chinese NGO Network for International Exchanges

From the Arab Republic of Egypt

Ahmed Taher, Director of the Al-Hewar Center for Political and Media Studies

Mohamed Salem Salah, Member of the Board of Trustees of the Al-Hevara Foundation for Research and Humanities, Chairman of the Eurasia and BRICS Forum

From 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 Ajasatru, Director of the BRICS Institute

From the Islamic Republic of Iran

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

From the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Ahmad Almohayani, Economist and Strategic Forecasting Consultant, Grogain Consulting

From the Republic of South Africa 

Raymond Matlala, Founder and Chairman of the South African BRICS Youth Association

From the United Arab Emirates

Hoda Al-Khzaimi, Founder and Director of the Center for New Technologies and Acceleration of Advanced Research