From 6-7 November, the Yalta International Forum was held in Moscow, attended by guests from over 60 countries. Among the delegates were participants from India, China, Argentina, Bulgaria, Austria, Serbia, Norway and other countries. The level of representation was quite high – professors, doctors of science, Deputies of certain countries, journalists and public figures.
This forum is one of the most important events in Russia and it has been going on since 2015. it has been held at Yalta for the past three years but has been temporarily relocated to Moscow due to logistical and other difficulties.
Photo: Yalta International Forum (personal archive)
This year, the organizers decided to divide the large-scale event into two phases: political and economic. The economic part of the forum will be held in early December in Ufa. The participants of the first part of the event in Moscow discussed in detail the political issues and activities of the International Association of Friends of Crimea. The forum discussed the prospects of a new polycentric world with existing economic challenges and ways of solving them, while special attention was paid to representatives of the younger generation, who will have to build a new architecture of the world order.
President of the Republic Sergey Aksyonov in his greeting, read at the opening of the event by the permanent representative of the Republic of Crimea to the president of the Russian Federation, Georgy Muradov, stated: "The Forum brings together a large circle of Friends of Crimea from different countries who help us in Word and deed, tell their compatriots the truth about our peninsula and contribute to the formation of public opinion. By doing so, people's diplomacy contributes to breaking the blockade and exposing the myths of Western propaganda.“
Photo: Yalta International Forum, participants from Serbia, Czech Republic and Lebanon
with the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Crimea to the Russian Federation Georgy Muradov (personal archive)
The forum was held under the motto "Crimea is Russia's Vanguard in the fight for a just world order". The event was also attended by President of the State Council of the Republic of Crimea Vladimir Konstantinov. During the opening ceremony, he said: "in ten years Crimea has escaped from Ukrainian hopelessness, thanks to the support of our president, the Russian government and teamwork, it has become an attractive, promising region of Russia. No one in Crimea could have imagined the scale of the transformations of 2013. years. Our friends from abroad are also active participants in the Crimean success. We are grateful to them for the moral support, which we especially needed in the first stages, when we wanted to reach international organizations, prove to everyone that we are right and justify the legality of our choice.“ Konstantinov also pointed out that the global process of reconstruction of the world began precisely from the Crimean Spring.
Photo: Yalta International Forum, participants from Arab countries
with her Syrian Ambassador to the Russian Federation Mr. Bashar Jaafari (Personal Archive)
Deputy Minister of economic development Dmitry Volvach noted that the Yalta forum directly deals with economic issues and emphasized the active participation of the Republic of Crimea on the expansion of the interregional and regional agenda, the implementation of National Development Goals, which are formed in the regions where people who start business and the economy work.
During the two days of the forum, participants discussed the construction of a new polycentric world and the problems posed by obstacles, as well as the importance of reintegrating the Crimean Peninsula into the Russian Federation. Within the session "uniting the world majority-the core of the new polycentric world", participants exchanged views on the formation of a new world order, the role of the public in combating new forms of Nazism, colonialism, racism and global conflict. Of course, there were also talks about the results of the BRICS penetrating forum held in Kazan, as well as about the activities of other international associations.
The second day of the forum was dedicated to the traditional conference "Crimea in a contemporary international context". "We talked about 10. anniversaries of the Crimean spring, the modern development of this Republic and the activities of people's diplomacy.
Photo: Yalta International Forum, participants from the Center for geostrategic studies (personal archive)
Dragana Trifkovic, director of the Center for geostrategic studies was awarded the medal in honor of the ten-year anniversary of the reintegration of the Republic of Crimea into the Russian Federation by Sergei Aksyonov. On the first day of the forum, she spoke about the geostrategic consequences of the British-American policy of conflict of civilizations that led to the necessity of transforming the world and multipolarization as an alternative that offers the development of civilizations based on mutual respect. Trifkovic pointed out that BRICS can be a saving solution for European countries and that they should focus on this idea in order to find their place in the new multipolar world. In addition, she noted that the Yalta International Forum is a platform that in the last ten years has managed to gather many reputable experts from various countries, who have become carriers of long-awaited changes.
Video: Yalta International Forum, Dragana Trifkovic medal in honor
ten years of reintegration of Crimea into the Russian Federation (personal archive)
From 2-5 December, the Yalta Economic Forum will be held in the capital of Bashkiria, where participants will discuss new business ideas, and many agreements on economic cooperation are expected to be signed.
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Source: Center for Geostrategic Studies
16. November 2024.