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🧱🇿🇦 BRICS leaders meet in South Africa
Leaders of the BRICS nations are due to open a summit in Johannesburg on Tuesday where they will weigh expanding membership as some members push to forge the bloc into a counterweight to the West.
"An expanded BRICS will represent a diverse group of nations with different political systems that share a common desire to have a more balanced global order," South Africa's president, Cyril Ramaphosa, said in an address ahead of the meetings.
Ramaphosa will host Chinese President Xi Jinping, Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov from Aug. 22 to 24.
Over 40 countries have expressed interest in joining BRICS, say South African officials. Of them, nearly two dozen have formally asked to be admitted.
Xi, Lavrov and Lula are already in South Africa.
#BRICS #SouthAfrica
@africaintel
Leaders of the BRICS nations are due to open a summit in Johannesburg on Tuesday where they will weigh expanding membership as some members push to forge the bloc into a counterweight to the West.
"An expanded BRICS will represent a diverse group of nations with different political systems that share a common desire to have a more balanced global order," South Africa's president, Cyril Ramaphosa, said in an address ahead of the meetings.
Ramaphosa will host Chinese President Xi Jinping, Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov from Aug. 22 to 24.
Over 40 countries have expressed interest in joining BRICS, say South African officials. Of them, nearly two dozen have formally asked to be admitted.
Xi, Lavrov and Lula are already in South Africa.
#BRICS #SouthAfrica
@africaintel