金砖五国不仅对自身发展充满信心，而且坚信其他国家的发展
文I奎因·莫科佤佩 博茨瓦纳《报道者报》记者
9月3日至5日，金砖国家领导人第九次会晤在中国厦门举行。作为一位来自非洲的记者，我有幸参加了此次盛会的报道。
对于大多数希望在经济上和政治上度过难关的国家来说，金砖国家已经成为了他们的重要帮手。金砖五国以坚定的立场宣布，在保持金砖国家自身发展的同时，将更多地帮助其他国家的发展。正如中国主席习近平在会晤前所说，金砖国家探索进取，谋求共同发展。基于此，我认为，引入“金砖+”机制有希望将金砖国家之外的新兴市场吸纳进来。
金砖国家由巴西、俄罗斯、印度、中国和南非五个新兴经济体组成，面对其他国家缓慢的发展速度，这些金砖国家明显感到有必要伸出援手，而非坐视不管。
2017年9月3日，在金砖国家工商论坛开幕式上，中国国家主席习近平强调金砖国家将帮助其他国家实现可持续发展。
他说，“金砖合作正处在承前启后的关键节点上。观察金砖合作发展，有两个维度十分重要。一是要把金砖合作放在世界发展和国际格局演变的历史进程中来看。二是要把金砖合作放在五国各自和共同发展的历史进程中来看。为了加强合作，允许其他市场获得更广阔的贸易空间，金砖国家一致认为，“金砖+”机制是缩小五国与其他国家之间差距的一个途径。”
出于对非洲的重视和支持其发展的信心，一如既往。“金砖+”机制将会帮助大多数非洲国家，以此作为践行全球责任的方式，帮助其他仍在政治和经济发展中挣扎的发展中国家，并坚持一贯的承诺不干涉别国内政。
习主席指出，“10年中，金砖国家敢于担当，力求在国际舞台上有所作为。五国秉持多边主义，倡导公平正义，就国际和地区重大问题发出声音、提出方案。五国积极推动全球经济治理改革，提升新兴市场国家和发展中国家代表性和发言权。我们五国高举发展旗帜，带头落实千年发展目标和可持续发展目标，加强同广大发展中国家对话合作，谋求联合自强。”
这五个国家不仅对自身发展充满信心，而且坚信其他国家的发展。正如习近平所言，五国一直坚信自身发展，同时胸怀天下、立己达人，金砖国家都是在发展道路上一步步走过来的，对那些身处战乱和贫困的百姓感同身受。
习近平主席在演讲中指出，“我们五国从发起之初便以‘对话而不对抗，结伴而不结盟’为准则，倡导遵循联合国宪章宗旨和原则以及国际法和国际关系基本准则处理国家间关系，愿在实现自身发展的同时同其他国家共享发展机遇。金砖合作理念得到越来越多理解和认同，成为国际社会的一股正能量。”对此，五国都与中国站在同一立场上。进一步而言，我们相信五国都认真对待自身国际责任，因为他们都认可为了繁荣发展，应当消除贫困和冲突。
金砖国家相信，虽然全球范围内冲突和贫困尚未根除，但和平与发展的时代潮流愈发强劲，过去十年里，大批新兴市场国家和发展中国家异军突起，在国际事务中发挥日益重要的作用。2008年爆发国际金融危机，直接导致世界经济急刹车，至今未能重回正轨。面对外部环境突然变化，五国立足国内，集中精力发展经济、改善民生。10年间，五国经济总量增长179%，贸易总额增长94%，城镇化人口增长28%，为世界经济企稳复苏作出突出贡献，也让30多亿人民有了实实在在的获得感。
此次金砖国家领导人会晤还讨论了恐怖主义等全球安全问题。近年来恐怖主义和恐怖袭击事件频发，威胁了全球安全，五国这一行为值得赞扬。关于如何解决恐怖主义问题的讨论非常有必要，因为如果没有国家就恐怖袭击表明立场、发出声音，无辜民众将会继续受难。（编辑：周洋）
To Be Better, To Help Those in Need
By Queen Mokwape, Journalist MMEGI/THE MONITOR, Botswana
On September 3rd to 5th,the 9th BRICS Summitwas held in Xiamen, China. As a journalist from Africa, I had the honor ofattending the event.
BRICS has become a important helper formost countries that are struggling to stay afloat both economically and politically.The five countries has declared that with a strong stance that they mandatewill focus more on helping and developing other countries rather than justfocusing on themselves.
Like China’s President Xi Jinping has beensaying in the run up to the summit, the BRICS countries are making headway inpursing common development for the globe and this has been evident with theintroduction of the BRICS PLUS which is expected to make way for other or moreemerging markets outside the BRICS circle.
BRICS which is a group of emergingeconomies consisting of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa areevidently pressed by the slow growth shown by others countries that they havefound it fit to lend a helping hand instead of watching from the sidelines.
At the opening ceremony of BRICS BusinessForum President Xi Jinping gave a glimpse of their intentions of making BRICS aworld leader in global development and helping other countries in sustainabledevelopment.
“BRICS cooperation has now reached a crucialstage of development. In assessing its performance, it is important to bear twothings in mind: the historical course of global development and evolvinginternational landscape and the historical process of development of the BRICScountries and other emerging markets, both individually and collectively, inthe context of which BRICS cooperation is pursued,” he explained
Xi said the BRICS countries co-agreed onthe BRICS PLUS as a way of closing the global gap between the five countriesand those outside the circle in order to enhance cooperation and allow othermarkets to have a wider trading space for better development.
As expected since China has a soft spot forAfrica and believes in its growthand others as a way of fulfilling their globalresponsibility in helping developing countries still struggling to remainafloat economically and as well as politically without interference into theirinternal affairs which has always been their principle when dealing with otherscountries in need.
“The past decade has seen the BRICScountries endeavoring to fulfill their international responsibility. Committedto multilateralism, fairness and justice, our five countries have staked outour positions on major regional and international issues and made our proposalsto address them. We have promoted reform of global economic governance toincrease the representation and say of emerging market and developingcountries. As a champion of development, we have taken the lead in implementingthe Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals, and engagedin close dialogue and cooperation with other developing countries to pursuedevelopment through unity,” Xi said.
Not only does the five countries believe indeveloping themselves but they also believe in developing those in need as Xipointed out that as the five countries they have always believed in developingthemselves while at the same time having the well-being of the world in ourmind as such having gone through an arduous course of development, the BRICScountries share the agony of those people who were still caught in chaos andpoverty.
The countries are in the same page aswitnessed by Xi maintaining that “Since the very beginning, our five countrieshave been guided by the principle of dialogue without confrontation,partnership without alliance. We are committed to observing the purposes andprinciples of the UN Charter, international law and basic norms governinginternational relations in conducting state-to-state relations. When developingourselves, we are ready to share development opportunities with othercountries. The philosophy of BRICS cooperation has gained growing appreciationand endorsement, and it has become a positive energy in the internationalcommunity,”
Furthermore one can rest assured that thefive countries are taking their global responsibility very seriously as theyshowed indication that poverty and conflicts should be eliminated for the sakeof prosperity
The BRICS countries believes that althoughconflict and poverty are yet to be eliminated globally, the trend toward peaceand development has grown stronger and that in the last decade the world hasseen large number of emerging market and developing countries coming into tothe fore, playing an ever greater role in international affairs.
Despite the outbreak of the 2008 globalfinancial crisis that left the world economy reeling, and which is yet to fullyrecover as it is facing external shock, the five countries have held the groundby strengthening the domestic economy, boosting growth and improving people'slivelihood.
“In the past ten years, our combined GDPhas grown by 179%, trade by 94% and urban population by 28%. All this hascontributed significantly to stabilizing the global economy and returning it togrowth, and it has delivered tangible benefits to three billion and morepeople,” Xi said.
Still on the resolutions of the summit thefive countries discussed issues of global security with terrorism at the forewhich is very commendable in the sense that lately terrorism and terror attackshave been rising which has a become a global security threat. The discussion onhow to tackle terrorism was overly due because without countries showing theirstand and voice on terror attacks innocent people will continue to suffermeasurably.