The international community should meet challenges in the field of international security through multilateral diplomacy.

The foreign ministers of China, Russia, India and Brazil on Friday stressed multilateral cooperation and diplomacy in dealing with global affairs.
The four top diplomats, who met in the central Russian city of Yekaterinburg, said in a joint statement after the meeting that their dialogues have bright prospect since the four countries share the same or similar views on the pressing issues of the world development, according to Xinhua.
Establishing a more democratic international system based on the rule of law and multilateralism is a call of the times, said the four foreign ministers-- Yang Jiechi of China, Sergei Lavrov of Russia, Pranab Mukherjee of India and Celso Amorim of Brazil.
They pledged to work with other countries to enhance international security and stability so as to ensure that all countries enjoy an equal opportunity for development.
The current world order should be based on the rule of law and the strengthening of multilateralism and the role of the United Nations, they said in the statement.

Multilateral Diplomacy
The foreign ministers expressed the hope that the international community should meet the common challenges in the field of international security through multilateral diplomacy and they reiterated their support for resolving disputes in international relations through peaceful means.
Noting the close links between energy security, social-economic growth and environmental protection, they pledged to strengthen multilateral efforts to achieve an equilibrium between energy producing, transit and consuming countries.
The foreign ministers supported promoting dialogue on a global partnership in achieving the internationally agreed goals of development, particularly the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), the statement said.
The foreign ministers of Brazil, Russia, India and China, the so-called BRIC countries, also agreed to hold another meeting in September in New York, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
The agreement to meet in September on the sidelines of the 63rd UN General Assembly session was reached by the foreign ministers during their meeting in Yekaterinburg, according to RIA Novosti.
“The ministers agreed to continue quadrilateral cooperation, including within the framework of international organizations and forums,“ the Russian ministry said in a statement.
The term BRIC was first used in 2003 in a thesis published by the Goldman Sachs investment bank that named Brazil, Russia, India and China as the most rapidly developing economies in the world.
According to the thesis, by the year 2050, BRIC will overtake most of the present richest countries in the world. The overall gold and currency reserves of the four BRIC countries are estimated at over $1.3 trillion.
The first meeting of BRIC took place in 2006 in New York within the framework of the UN General Assembly session.

The UN’s top human rights body still lacks real credibility, even as it prepares to enter its third year, its chairman said on Friday.
The UN Human Rights Council has come a long way since replacing the discredited Human Rights Commission in 2006 but to convince skeptics of its value, Doru-Romulus Costea told The Associated Press.
Some of the strongest criticisms have come from Western countries and non-governmental organizations, who argue that the Geneva-based body is little better than its predecessor at pursuing rights abuses around the world.
Costea, who chairs the 47-nation council until June 19, said the body has proved it can react to crisis situations at short notice, holding emergency sessions on human rights in the Palestinian territories, Myanmar and next week on the global food crisis.
But its heavy focus on Israel has led to accusations of bias from the United States, Canada, former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan, and Israel itself.
Muslim countries form a strong bloc in the council have used their votes to push through resolutions against Israel and block condemnation of their allies, including Sudan.
The council will replace just under a third of its membership next week, with 18 countries vying for 15 seats.
The election, for three-year terms, takes place at the UN General Assembly in New York.
The United States has chosen again not to run for a seat.

EU and Latin American leaders vowed to do more to further trade between their regions and tackle global warming and poverty as they wrapped up a summit late Friday in the Peruvian capital Lima.
The 50 heads of states and governments pledged in a joint statement to “actively pursue“ two free trade agreements between Europe and Central American countries and the Andean Community (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru), AFP reported.
They also stated that “overcoming poverty, inequality and exclusion is crucial for the attainment of social cohesion, for sustainable development and for the effectiveness of our bi-regional partnership,“ and asserted that climate change was a drag on economic growth.
European Commission officials expressed disappointment at the slowness of the trade talks, which are weighed down by Latin American attempts to secure greater access to the European market for tropical products, particularly bananas.
Bilateral discussions on specific issues were held on the sidelines of the summit, and more were to occur Saturday before the delegations packed up and left.
Chavez, who has a key role in that matter, was prominent at the summit, with many fearing he would put forth his trademark fiery rhetoric.

The former president of Sierra Leone testified before the country’s war crimes tribunal on Friday, offering a glowing assessment of a former rebel now on trial.
According to AP, President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah described the former warlord as during the nation’s disarmament process.
Kabbah was brought in to testify by the ex-rebel’s defense team, which is arguing that, although 37-year-old Issa Sesay was the field commander of a brutal rebel movement, he was nonetheless instrumental in ending the decade-long civil war.
The public gallery was filled up to capacity with members of the public, including numerous amputees _ a striking reminder of the country’s conflict, whose signature act was the cutting off of villagers’ hands. Sesay was indicted in 2003, two years after the end of the war, on charges of crimes against humanity.
Kabbah said he first met Sesay in 2001, when as president of Sierra Leone he met the leader of the Revolutionary United Front to burn weapons in a public display marking the end of the war.
“Sesay proved to be credible when he agreed to do something,“ said Kabbah. “Process was very important as is demonstrated in this,“ he said.