BRICS Invites 6 Countries to Join, Including Saudi Arabia, UAE, Iran

The BRICS economical bloc has invited six countries to go caller members: Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. The BRICS leaders wrapped up their 15th yearly acme connected Thursday. “We person reached statement connected the guiding principles, standards, criteria, and procedures of the BRICS enlargement process,” said South Africa’s president.

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On Thursday, the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) wrapped up their 15th yearly acme successful Johannesburg and released their “Johannesburg II Declaration.” Russia volition presume the 2024 BRICS Chairship and big the XVI BRICS Summit successful the metropolis of Kazan.

The economical bloc has decided to invitation six countries to go caller members: Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). South Africa, the seat of the BRICS acme this year, antecedently stated that 23 countries person formally applied for membership. The BRICS declaration states:

We person decided to invitation the Argentine Republic, the Arab Republic of Egypt, the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates to go afloat members of BRICS from 1 January 2024.

“We person besides tasked our overseas ministers to further make the BRICS spouse state exemplary and a database of prospective spouse countries and study by the adjacent summit,” the declaration further details.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa posted connected the X societal media level astatine the decision of the BRICS summit: “BRICS is simply a divers radical of nations. It is an adjacent concern of countries that person differing views but a shared imaginativeness for a amended world.” He emphasized:

As the 5 BRICS members, we person reached statement connected the guiding principles, standards, criteria and procedures of the BRICS enlargement process. We person statement connected the archetypal signifier of this enlargement process.

Earlier, China’s President Xi Jinping stated astatine the summit: “We volition forge stronger BRICS strategical partnership, grow the ‘BRICS Plus’ model, actively beforehand rank expansion, deepen solidarity and practice with different [emerging markets and processing countries], beforehand planetary multipolarity and greater ideology successful planetary relations, and assistance marque the planetary bid much conscionable and equitable.” Russian President Vladimir Putin said astatine the acme that “the irreversible process of de-dollarization is gaining steam.”

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