Valdai participants react World order and dialogue

Oct 1

After the Valdai address, Vremya says around 120 experts from forty countries attended. Fyodor Lukyanov describes Putin's answers as comprehensive and peace-minded while emphasizing self-reliance and awareness that appeals may fail. Richard Sakwa says viewers abroad could watch and that elites discuss the ideas. Anatoly Torkunov praises the breadth and detail of the account of international and economic affairs. Andrey Sushentsov interprets it as an invitation to a shared continental and global space, cooperation with countries of the global majority and an opening to the West. These are the participants' favorable interpretations, not evidence of an agreed international policy or endorsement of every issue-specific threat in the speech.

At the October 1 Valdai meeting in Moscow, Putin describes rapid international change and a growing multipolar world, warns leaders against exporting internal instability and calls for cautious, responsible choices and cooperative solutions. Vremya's post-address interviews present Lukyanov, Sakwa, Torkunov and Sushentsov's favorable interpretations of the breadth of the speech, self-reliance and cooperation with the global majority and the West. These are an address and attributed participant reactions, not an international agreement or endorsement by all states. At Valdai, Putin argues that Western dominance is giving way to a multipolar order and urges sovereign choices, mutual respect and cooperation among distinct civilizations. In responses to Feng Wei, Gupta and Ehsan he applies this position to Chinese and Indian traditions and the rights of the global majority. His claims about the transition and motives of Western states are attributed policy assessments, not an agreed new international structure.