Secretary General of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Akbar Ahmadian has hailed the BRICS group of emerging economies, saying the bloc can help create a new security structure that would ensure the international community’s security and future.

According to The Iran Project, “The world is undergoing changes, and BRICS, given its population, size, economy and power, could serve as the innovator and creator of a new security structure in the international arena to help the order and security of the future world,” Ahmadian said on Wednesday as he addressed a meeting of BRICS security officials in Russia’s port city of St. Petersburg.

He offered Iran's proposal for the establishment of a "specific security structure for BRICS under the title of ‘BRICS Security Commission,’ and to change the joint cooperation mechanisms in the fields of peace and international security to deal with common threats" such as terrorism, fundamentalism, narcotics, misappropriation of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, maritime insecurity, human trafficking, unauthorized biological activities as well as threats in cyberspace.

The SNSC chief also highlighted that BRICS member states, in parallel with economic cooperation, could be the founders of a new world security system in order to overcome the weaknesses of the existing security system.