The World Public Summit: Latin America "The New World: Latin America in Shaping a Shared Future" summed up the Outcomes in Brazil

The World Public Summit: Latin America "The New World: Latin America in Shaping a Shared Future" was held in Salvador (Brazil) on June 16 - 17, 2026. The landmark event brought together more than 500 representatives of public, educational organizations, business and media, religious and youth leaders, politicians and diplomats from 20 countries - Argentina, Belarus, Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Ghana, Honduras, India, Cuba, Colombia, Morocco, Mexico, Mozambique, Nicaragua, the United Arab Emirates, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Russia, Uruguay, Chile and Ecuador. The organizers are the World Peoples Assembly and the Brazilian trade union organization Central dos Trabalhadores e Trabalhadoras do Brasil (CTB). The event was supported by public opinion leaders from Latin American countries.

In two days, within the Summit in Salvador were held:

over 20 events, including 10 panel international thematic sessions, a meeting of the Media Club of the World Peoples Assembly, a meeting of the Scientific and Expert Council of the World Peoples Assembly, a meeting of the Council for Sustainable Economic and Social Development

signing of agreements by the World Peoples Assembly with new partners in Latin America.

opening of exhibitions of the World Peoples Assembly and CTB;

visit of the Summit delegation to the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), meeting with the Rector and students;

the solemn ceremony of awarding the winners of the regional stage of the International Contest "Leader of Public Diplomacy" in Latin America;

concert of the Neojiba orchestra under the direction of conductor Rubens Ricciardi at Basílica de Nossa Senhora da Conceição da Praia in honor of the Summit’s opening;

adoption of the final documents - the Resolution and the Salvador Declaration (Brazil) at the closing ceremony of the Summit.

The event marked a new stage in the development of international social and humanitarian dialogue and the consistent continuation of the ideas of the World Public Assembly "A New World of Conscious Unity" in 2025. It continued the international cycle of regional public summits in 2026, the first of which was held in March in India, and the next one is scheduled for July in Ethiopia. As a result of these events, practical initiatives and proposals from civil society will be formed for presentation at the Second World Public Assembly "New World: Values that Unite" in Moscow in September 2026.

– Brazil is one of the largest countries in the world, with a large population, a huge area, and a distinctive culture. In South America, colonialism has always been present to varying degrees. The continent has experienced slavery and many other things that oppressed people, suppressed their consciousness. Right now, no one in the world, and Latin America in particular, wants a repeat of neocolonialism. Everyone talks about freedom, the desire to live in peace, kindness, harmony, and happiness. It is very important. The fact that we have gathered in Salvador, the first capital of Brazil, is very symbolic. I am sure that during the Summit, the participants will be able to express everything that will contribute to our unity – the unity of human consciousness and thoughts. What is now called public diplomacy, friendship diplomacy, is a vivid manifestation of the fact that people want to live without conflicts and without, perhaps, the wrong actions of politicians who sometimes solve their own problems, forgetting about the people," - said Andrei Belyaninov, Secretary General of the World Peoples Assembly.

One of the most important outcomes of the Summit was the adoption of the Salvador Declaration. The main principle of the document is "A just world based on the principles of solidarity, trust, mutual respect and shared responsibility for the future." In the Declaration, the participants formulated the shared values of the New World based on the discussions, noted their vision of a shared future and the role of Latin America in it, and identified priority areas for further cooperation.

The Summit was attended by:

• Raymunda Monteiro – Executive Secretary of the Council for Sustainable Socio-Economic Development (CDESS) under the President of Brazil;

• Juan Miguel Diaz Ferrer – Co-Chairman of the Supreme Advisory Council of the World Peoples Assembly, Professor at the Institute of Higher Diplomatic Studies. Pedro Guala (Venezuela);

• Paulo Niemeyer - President of the Niemeyer Institute, architect, great–grandson of Oscar Niemeyer;

• Adilson Araujo – President of the Central Union of Workers of Brazil (CTB);

• Oscar Andrade Layane– Senator of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay;

• Andrey Andreev – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to Brazil;

• Victor Manuel Cayro Palomo – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Cuba to Brazil;

• Felipe Paulier – UN Assistant Secretary-General for Youth Affairs (Uruguay);

• Patricio Mary Bell – writer, journalist (Chile);

• Alexander Ageev – Director General of the International Research Institute of Management Problems, Chairman of the Scientific and Expert Council of the World Peoples Assembly, member of the Club of Rome;

• Alexandra Ochirova – poet, Chairman of the WOW Board, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador (Russia, online);

• Bishop Leonid of Argentina and South America (Argentina);

• Fidel Antonio Castro-Smirnov – Academician of the Cuban Academy of Sciences, Professor at the University of Havana (Cuba);

• Alexey Zagrebin – Director of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia, online);

• Margarita Al – poet, Chair of the Literary Council of the World Peoples Assembly, President of the World Organization of Writers WOW (Russia);

• João Filho - writer, winner of the Alfonso de Guimaraes Prize of the National Library of Brazil.;

• Timur Zulfikarov – national writer of Tajikistan, nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature (1991);

• Ruben Dario Flores Arcila - poet, translator from Russian to Spanish (Colombia, online)

and many others.

— The Summit confirmed the great and diverse potential of Latin America, which makes it an important participant in the formation of a new multipolar world. In Brazil, the participants were able to learn about the unique experience of the region, and this accumulated experience is certainly interesting to the peoples of other continents," Svetlana Smirnova, Chairperson of the General Council of the World Peoples Assembly, said at the end of the event.

The World Peoples Assembly is an International union of non-governmental organizations that forms a humanitarian platform for cooperation between the peoples of the world based on trust, mutual respect and common values.

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More information about the regional summits of the World Peoples Assembly is on the official website of the World Public Summit.