"Our Indian counterparts, given that their access to the US market will be restricted to some extent, will be more interested in supplying us," said the official, who is visiting India. "This is also an opportunity for us to expand our trade. Our access to the Indian market could increase and open up in certain new niches."

"For obvious reasons, trade with the US is now significantly limited, but because we are still closely integrated into global trade — with the #BRICS countries and other countries that are friendly to Russia — there will be a certain influence," Ilyichev went on to say.

"We consider BRICS as an authoritative international platform that unites the efforts of the global majority aimed at the formation of true multipolarity, equality, and inclusiveness in international relations, the search for effective ways to solve pressing problems," Sergey Rachkov said.

"As Belarusian President Aleksander Lukashenko said in his speech at the 16th BRICS Summit in Kazan, BRICS is a community of the future," said Sergey Rachkov.

“Looking into other aspect of geopolitics to continue to work together, to collaborate at the various platforms, BRICS, G20, the United Nations as the prime multilateral platform, particularly in this age where unilateralism is raising its head again,” he told Sputnik Africa.

"We have already received political support from all BRICS members and hope to conclude our adherence process very soon," he said, noting that joining the NDB this year remains a priority for the country's leadership.

"By adhering to the BRICS, Ethiopia — together with South Africa and Egypt— can promote the African positions on peace and security, inclusive and sustainable development, climate, and other issues," he said.

"Given that Germany has adopted a strategic cooperation plan with India that runs through 2050, and France has concluded its largest investment agreement with the People's Republic of China, I fail to see how the European Union can present any valid argument to challenge Serbia's right and decision to build bridges of alliance and cooperation with #BRICS members," she said.

"It is well known that Serbia is economically dependent on the European Union, yet despite this, Belgrade resists Brussels' attempts to force Serbia into aligning its foreign and security policies with the EU," she continued.

"Serbia has not imposed sanctions on Moscow, and our determination to preserve strategic relations with traditional allies has never been called into question. This is a policy consistently pursued by both the Government of the Republic of Serbia and the President of the Republic, who has repeatedly made it clear that Serbia—despite being in the process of European integration—should not "cut off its own leg" and renounce friendship and cooperation with states bound to it by historically rooted relations, reinforced by strategic partnership agreements," added Durdevic-Stamenkovski.