Russian President’s international affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov talked about Thursday that 24 leaders gain confirmed their participation in a summit of the BRICS bloc of developing economies location to be held in Kazan later this month.
Ushakov elaborated that the leaders of 9 member states would be amongst these attending the summit, including China’s Xi Jinping, Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Iran’s Masoud Pezeshkian.
Invitations were sent to 38 states including member states and international locations that “want to cooperate” with BRICS, Ushakov talked about at a news briefing in Moscow.
The BRICS alliance became once founded in 2006 by Brazil, Russia, India and China, with South Africa joining in 2010, but has not too long in the past gone by a serious expansion, and now includes Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia and the United Arab Emirates. Saudi Arabia has talked about it’s considering joining and Azerbaijan has formally utilized.
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