Press release on the Council of Young Diplomats’ delegation attending the Second BRICS Young Diplomats Forum

From September 3 to 6, a delegation from the Foreign Ministry’s Council of Young Diplomats attended the second BRICS Young Diplomats Forum in Kolkata, India. During the four-day forum, young Russian diplomats and their colleagues from Brazil, India, China and South Africa met with members of the executive and legislative authorities and the business community from the state of West Bengal and attended meetings and roundtable discussions on youth issues in the BRICS countries.

The forum participants reaffirmed their desire to make the meeting an annual event, welcomed the development of cooperation between universities that train professionals in international relations, supported the BRICS Volunteer initiative advanced by Russia and called for stronger ties between young business people from the BRICS countries.

The participants adopted a final communique of the Second BRICS Young Diplomats Forum.