14th Meeting of BRICS High-Ranking Officials kicked off on Wednesday morning, in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Iran PressEurope: The Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Akbar Ahmadian who attended the 14th Meeting of BRICS High-Ranking Officials Responsible for Security Matters/National Security Advisors in Russia, offered Iran's proposal to form a special security structure for BRICS under the title "BRICS Security Commission".

Addressing the meeting, Ahmadian stated that the world is changing and added: "BRICS, with its population, size, economy, and power, can be the creator of a new security structure in the international arena to help the order and security of the future world."

"My specific proposal is to establish the BRICS Security Commission is aimed at dealing with common threats such as terrorism, extremism, drugs, abuse of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, satellites and insecurity, human trafficking, illicit biological activities, and threats in cyberspace," Ahmadian said.

To remove the weak points, he added that BRICS members could be the founders of a new security system at the world level in parallel with economic cooperation. 

Upon his arrival in Russia, the Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council met with Russian National Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu.

In this meeting, the Secretary of the National Security Council of Russia emphasized: "Moscow supports the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Islamic Republic of Iran regarding the three Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf."

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