🇮🇳 “Why G7?” Jaishankar asks when questioned about the need for BRICS+. External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Thursday (September 12, 2024) dismissed the argument that there was no need for “another club” called the BRICS, and said he was struck by the “insecurity” in the developed world over the grouping.

🔴During a conversation with Ambassador Jean-David Levitte at the Global Centre for Security Policy, a think tank, here, Jaishankar said if the G7 can exist when there is the G20, there is no reason why BRICS cannot.

🔴Accounting for 27% of global GDP, BRICS was founded by Brazil, Russia, India, and China; later South Africa joined it, and in January 2024, five new countries – Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE, and Ethiopia; joined the bloc.

🔴“Why the club? Because there was another club! It was called the G7 and you will not let anybody else into that club. So, we go and form our own club. Here's an observation. There is a G20, did the G7 disband? Has it stopped meeting? No, it still continues. So, the G20 exists, but the G7 still exists. Then, why can't the G20 be there and the BRICS also exist?” - Mr. Jaishankar.

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🇧🇷 Just in: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will attend the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, in October, the country's ambassador to Moscow, Rodrigo de Lima Baena Soares, confirmed on Saturday.

🔴Earlier, China and Turkey confirmed their presidents Xi Jinping and Recep Tayyip Erdogan will attend the summit schedule for October 22-24.

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🇷🇺Russian specialists have begun a more detailed study of the HIMARS warhead, where the "brain" of the missile is located.

🔴The RIA Novosti footage shows for the first time the dismantling stage and opening of one of the missile's elements.

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🇰🇵 North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui is on her way to Russia to attend the Eurasian Women’s Forum and BRICS Women’s Forum, the Russian embassy to Pyongyang said.

🔴On September 16, North Korea’s top diplomat set off for Vladivostok. On September 18-20, she will attend the fourth Eurasian Women’s Forum and BRICS Women’s Forum in St. Petersburg. "She is scheduled to deliver speeches and take part in discussions.”
-TASS

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🇨🇺Cuba has submitted an official request to be included in BRICS+ as a partner country in a message to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the director general of the Cuban Foreign Ministry’s General Division of Bilateral Affair, Carlos Pereira, said.

🔴"Cuba has submitted an official request to join BRICS+ as a partner country in a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin who is the chairman of the grouping which is consolidating global politics and the hope of the Global South as a key player.”

🔴On Monday, Russian Ambassador to Cuba Viktor Koronelli told TASS in an interview that Cuba has officially applied for partnership status at BRICS+. He also confirmed that Cuba’s leader Miguel Diaz-Canel has the invitation to take part in BRICS Plus/Outreach, an extended meeting of the grouping at the coming summit in Kazan.
-TASS

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