新闻纵贯线 Today updated 20:00 2017/09/01（在线收听）

金砖会晤：共促经济，共享发展

Welcome to 'Today' - an hour of world news and analysis -- from a different perspective. I'm Suyi.

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Chinese authorities have unveiled a detailed agenda for the upcoming BRICS Summit, as well as the major topics to be discussed during the sessions, which start Sunday.

Meantime, Russian president Vladimir Putin has called for closer coordination of the BRICS countries' foreign policies, primarily at the UN and G20.

In a signed article published ahead of the BRICS Summit in Xiamen, Putin said only the combined efforts of all countries can help bring about global stability and find solutions to many acute conflicts.

Putin has called for the creation of a broad counterterrorism front based on international law and led by the UN.

Concerning the situation on the Korean Peninsula, Putin says the region's problems should only be settled through a direct dialogue of all the parties concerned without any preconditions.

The Russian leader adds Russia is ready to work together with its BRICS partners to promote international financial regulation reforms.

Today we are talking about the upcoming BRICS summit in Xiamen.

Joining our discussions are：

Jiang Shixue, Professor and Director of the Centre for Latin American studies at Shanghai University；

Timofey Bakhvalov, LLM, international business consultant and analyst；

Bryonie Guthrie, Anylst with Acorus Capital and director of Guthrie & Co. Africa-China Consultancy；

Prasoon Sharma, Researcher at University of Bradford on India-China relationship, also Fellow at Qianhai Institute of Innovative Research based in Shenzhen.