Colombia also wants to join BRICS
| The president of Colombia announced that this country wants to join the "BRICS" group of countries. |
reported by Mehr News Agency quoted by Rashatudi, the president of Colombia, Gustavo Pedro, announced that this country is interested in becoming a full member of the “BRICS” group of countries.
Recently, South Africa’s ambassador to Russia, “Mzuvokili Maktoka”, announced in an interview with “Tass” news agency that currently 25 countries are on the waiting list to join BRICS and forecast New members can be introduced to this group at the meeting in Kazan, Russia.
Maktoka further added: It is important to clarify how a country joins BRICS. I didn’t want to use the word join. There are two processes to join BRICS.
He explained about this: In process number one, the country in question can show its intention to join BRICS. In process number two, you can directly apply and say I want to join BRICS. Currently, 6 of these 25 countries have made an official request and the rest have also expressed their interest, however, the list of final candidates will be determined by the BRICS summit in October in Kazan, and BRICS will become bigger.
At the beginning of last December, “Anil Soklal”, the representative of South Africa in the “BRICS” group, announced that 5 countries, Iran, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Ethiopia, and Egypt They will join BRICS today on January 1, 2024.
BRICS countries, which initially included Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, last August invited six more countries to join this group. to join; A group whose goal is to confront the dominance of the world order led by America.
Russia founded the BRICS group in 2009 and currently accounts for 42% of the world’s population, 30% of the world’s geography and 24% of the world’s economic output. gives.
Five new countries participated in the last BRICS meeting in Durban, South Africa, and accepted this invitation in early January, and their representatives will attend the BRICS meeting on January 30 in Moscow. participated.
However, Argentina withdrew its request to join BRICS after the victory of far-right President Javier Maile last month.
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