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On Friday, the Russian President also said Moscow is consciously making a concerted attempt in reducing dollar dependence for Russian trade, pledging that Russia will make greater use of settlements in ruble and yuan in its trade with China [PPIO]
In Vladivostok on Friday, Putin said the GDP of the BRICS countries calculated at the purchasing power parity is greater than that of the G7, the Group of major industrialized nations.
“As far as I know, the GDP of BRICS is $37.4 trillion, while that of the G7 is $34.5 trillion. And if we go and say: ‘No, thank you, we are going to do this and that here on our own, and you can do it the way you want it,’ this will only add to the imbalances. If we are really set to resolve some issues, we should do that together,” he told Russian agency Itar Tass.
The leaders of the BRICS states (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) will meet on the sidelines of a G20 summit in Brisbane, Australia this weekend to further boost political and economic ties between the group.
On Friday, the Russian President also said Moscow is consciously making a concerted attempt in reducing dollar dependence for Russian trade, pledging that Russia will make greater use of settlements in ruble and yuan in its trade with China.
“We’re moving away from the diktat of the market that denominates all commercial oil flows in US dollars. We’re encouraging in every way the use of national currencies – both the ruble and the yuan,” he said on Friday.
Earlier in a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing this week, Putin said Russia supports China’s efforts to promote the international use of yuan and make it a global reserve currency.
“China is one of our key partners in the Asia-Pacific region… We are already carrying out our first deals in ruble and yuan. We are ready to extend such possibilities to trade in the energy sector too,” Putin said.
Both Russia and China have stressed that the world financial system is still dominated by the US dollar and is in need of a more diversified mechanism to reduce reliance on a single currency.
Russian state oil giant Rosneft and Chinese oil major CNPC also signed an agreement on Sunday to sell 10 per cent of shares in Rosneft’s subsidiary Vankorneft to China National Oil and Gas Exploration and Development.
“But we are also making arrangements on selling oil from that deposit, which is actually huge, for the yuans,” said Putin on Friday referring to the deal.
The Russian and Chinese central banks have recently agreed on a draft currency swap agreement, which will allow them to increase trade in domestic currencies and cut the dependence on the US dollar in bilateral payments.
A Bloomberg report says the yuan-ruble trade on the Moscow Exchange has jumped 10-fold this year to $749 million in August.
Earlier in September, Moscow and Beijing have entered into a pact to boost use of the rouble and yuan for trade transactions.
Earlier this year in the Brazilian city of Fortaleza, BRICS heads of state agreed to establish a $100 billion New Development Bank (NDB) at their summit meeting, with severe implications for the global development-finance landscape.
The five countries have also created a $100 billion Contingency Reserve Arrangement (CRA), meant to provide additional liquidity protection to member countries during balance of payments problems.
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