"Responsibility for our common future is not an abstract slogan at all"

On Thursday, October 1, Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the annual plenary session of the Valdai International Discussion Club. The topic of the meeting is "Responsibility for the future: the limits of what is possible or possibilities without limits?". The most striking and important moments from the speech of the Russian leader are in the Izvestia material.

About urgent tasks

You and I have always tried not only to diagnose the state of the world, but also to outline the contours of the emerging world order. I am convinced that the intellectual baggage and experience of trusting communication accumulated by the club will definitely be in demand when all of us, East and West, North and South, sooner or later have to agree on the principles of forming a new world order.

Unfortunately, we have to admit that today we have other tasks ahead of us, much more urgent and acute, although the presenter said that we need to calm everyone down, but the acute problems have not gone away. The alarming trends that we are witnessing in the international arena make us think, first of all, not about how to be more reasonable, efficient and fairer.

About the global world

First of all, we need to think about how to preserve global peace and security right now, in conditions when many of the previous norms of law have been discarded, and new ones have not yet appeared.

Responsibility for our common future is not an abstract slogan at all, it is a set of practical actions aimed at preventing humanity from sliding to the brink of survival and avoiding the irreparable.

The material is updated online.