All Nations Invited to Join BRICS Said ‘Yes’ to Membership: Russian Diplomat

The six countries that received an invitation to go members of BRICS astatine its acme person confirmed their determination to articulation the bloc, 1 of Russia’s apical diplomats unveiled. The high-ranking authoritative added that astatine this constituent successful clip it would beryllium premature to sanction those successful the adjacent batch of candidates.

BRICS and Its New Members Need Time Before Next Expansion Wave, Moscow Says

All of the recently invited countries person reaffirmed their tendency to articulation BRICS, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said astatine a property league aft the organization’s 15th yearly acme which was held connected Aug. 22-24 successful South Africa.

At their gathering successful Johannesburg, the existent 5 subordinate states (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) agreed to admit six much nations arsenic members of the radical connected Jan. 1, 2024 — Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

“All the countries who person been invited to articulation BRICS confirmed their willingness to judge the invitation successful a affirmative mode and, I’d say, with an aerial of gratitude and appreciation,” Ryabkov stated, quoted by the Tass quality agency. He besides emphasized:

Certainly, we volition not hold for Jan. 1 to sermon however the invitees volition beryllium involved.

An updated database of candidates for BRICS rank volition beryllium prepared for information astatine the group’s adjacent yearly acme successful the Russian Federation, which volition instrumentality up the one-year rotating chairmanship from South Africa.

Ryabkov noted it’s excessively aboriginal to speech astir further enlargement arsenic a intermission is needed to let the bloc’s caller subordinate states to adapt. “I wouldn’t instrumentality it upon myself to sanction immoderate imaginable next-wave candidates. To statesman with, the existent archetypal ‘installment’ consists of six countries, which is much than the ‘founding five.’”

“We request to spot however this ‘football team,’ to get the look from [Russian Foreign Minister] Sergey Lavrov, volition execute straight connected the tract of play, however coordinated it is. Time is needed for adaptation and exchanging champion practices,” the elder Russian diplomat added. “The main happening is that determination is simply a governmental will, a steadfast volition to determination ahead,” helium pointed out.

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