Iran’s security chief: BRICS could help create new world security structure

Secretary General of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Akbar Ahmadian has hailed the BRICS group of emerging economies, saying the bloc can help create a new security structure that would ensure the international community’s security and future.

“The world is undergoing changes, and BRICS, given its population, size, economy and power, could serve as the innovator and creator of a new security structure in the international arena to help the order and security of the future world,” Ahmadian said on Wednesday as he addressed a meeting of BRICS security officials in Russia’s port city of St. Petersburg.

He offered Iran's proposal for the establishment of a "specific security structure for BRICS under the title of ‘BRICS Security Commission,’ and to change the joint cooperation mechanisms in the fields of peace and international security to deal with common threats" such as terrorism, fundamentalism, narcotics, misappropriation of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, maritime insecurity, human trafficking, unauthorized biological activities as well as threats in cyberspace.

The SNSC chief also highlighted that BRICS member states, in parallel with economic cooperation, could be the founders of a new world security system in order to overcome the weaknesses of the existing security system.

Iran's top security official in Russia to attend BRICS security meeting

The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council is in Russia to take part in a meeting of security officials of the BRICS group.

Ahmadian left Tehran for St. Petersburg on Tuesday morning at the invitation of his Russian counterpart.

In addition to the BRICS security meeting, Iran's top security official is also slated to attend another meeting in St. Petersburg with high-ranking representatives in charge of security issues from BRICS+ countries, including Indonesia, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Serbia, Thailand, Belarus, Vietnam, Venezuela, Uzbekistan, Nicaragua, Cuba, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Mauritania and Laos in attendance.

On the sidelines of the gatherings, Ahmadian will also hold talks with some of his counterparts and discuss with Russian officials the most important regional and international developments in the political, security and economic fields.

Iran officially became a member of BRICS at the beginning of this year, five months after it announced its acceptance as a full member into the group along with Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, the UAE and Saudi Arabia.

BRICS was formed by and initially consisted of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, which collectively represent around 40% of the global population and a quarter of the world’s gross domestic product (GDP).

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