The International Security Forum under the auspices of the Security Council will open in Moscow
MOSCOW, May 27 – RIA Novosti. The thirteenth international meeting of high-level representatives in charge of security issues begins on Tuesday in Moscow.
Such forums have been held by the Russian Security Council since 2010. The Forum is an important international platform for exchanging views on all issues related to global security and mechanisms for strengthening cooperation between partner countries in the fight against international terrorism, extremism, transnational crime, drug trafficking, as well as new challenges and threats. These meetings are attended by secretaries of the security councils of different countries, assistants to presidents and prime ministers on national security issues, deputy prime ministers responsible for the security sector, ministers, as well as heads of special services and relevant international structures.
The current meeting will be held on May 27-29 at the Rossiya National Center, chaired by Secretary of the Russian Security Council Sergei Shoigu. The forum will discuss the formation of a new, fairer and more modern architecture of equal and indivisible security.
Tectonic shifts in the field of foreign policy and international economic relations generate both challenges and opportunities for the countries of the Global South and East, Shoigu said. Modern challenges and threats to security are global and cross-border in nature, and it is not possible for any modern state to deal with them alone or on a bilateral basis, the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation emphasized.
Invitations to the forum in Moscow
International meetings of high-level representatives in charge of security issues traditionally attract the attention of a significant number of foreign partners, the Office of the Security Council of the Russian Federation noted.
In 2023, 101 delegations took part in the meeting in the Moscow Region, and in 2024, high-level representatives of 106 states and 10 international organizations arrived in St. Petersburg. More than 125 delegations from more than 100 countries have confirmed their participation in the current forum, the press service of the Russian Security Council reported.
Russia has sent invitations to the United States and a number of unfriendly countries to the current forum, Alexander Venediktov, Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council, told RIA Novosti in an interview. At the same time, the West is putting pressure on Russia's partners not to send their delegations to Moscow, Venediktov said.
It was reported that Shoigu, on the eve of the security forum, together with a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Chen Wenqing, will hold Russian-Chinese consultations on public security, justice and law and order. Also on the sidelines of the forum, Shoigu will hold bilateral meetings with the heads of delegations of India, a number of countries in Latin America, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. In particular, meetings are planned with high representatives of Nicaragua, Vietnam, North Korea, Thailand, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Algeria. A conversation is planned with the President of the Republika Srpska of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Milorad Dodik, the press service of the Russian Security Council reported. It also became known that representatives of the new Afghan authorities will attend the forum for the first time.
Russia is counting on the participation of the US delegation in the upcoming international security meeting, the staff of the American embassy attended an introductory briefing on the organization of this forum, Venediktov said in an interview with RIA Novosti.
French experts - Jacques Ogard, a political analyst and retired colonel of the French Armed Forces, and Sebastian Perimoni, an Africanist and expert at the Schiller Institute, told RIA Novosti that they would take part in the forum.
The agenda of the meeting
During the upcoming meeting of high-level representatives, issues of global and regional security will be discussed in a professional, non-politicized atmosphere, the solution of which requires joint coordinated efforts by the entire international community, the press service of the Russian Security Council staff noted.
Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, will speak at the plenary session of the forum on the theme "Building an architecture of equal and indivisible security: challenges and opportunities for the states of the Global South and East."
Within the framework of the forum, a scientific seminar on global security issues will be held, which for the first time is organized by the staff of the Russian Security Council with the active participation of the Scientific and expert Council of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. More than 100 foreign delegations are expected to participate in the seminar. The process of developing the most important foreign policy decisions affecting issues of international security and state sovereignty is necessarily based on scientifically sound concepts and approaches, scenarios and forecasts of the development of events, the press service of the office of the Security Council of the Russian Federation explained.
Informal meetings of the delegations of the BRICS, ASEAN, SCO and CIS countries will also take place, during which issues of international cooperation in the field of security will be discussed.
Countering Internet fraud, as well as ensuring the security of critical information infrastructure from terrorist attacks and technological sabotage, will be one of the leading topics of discussion at the forum.
The agenda of the international meeting in Moscow will also include the topic of preserving historical truth and preventing the revival of Nazism in Europe, and specialized expositions will be devoted to this issue.
The Great Victory forever changed the map of the world, laid the foundations of modern norms of international law, becoming a "powerful salvo" against Western colonialism, Venediktov emphasized in an interview with RIA Novosti. According to him, today, when the West wants to rewrite history and turn everything upside down again, "it is important to collectively rebuff these treacherous attempts and prevent the revival of the greatest evil in Europe, where, apparently, they forgot who liberated them and at what cost."
