Cuba officially requested to join BRICS
According to Webangah News quoted by Mehr News Agency, citing Sputnik, Carlos Pereira, Director General of Bilateral Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, announced that the Cuban government has sent a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, formally requesting to join the He presented the countries of the “BRICS” group.
Currently, Russia heads the BRICS group.
By publishing a message on X social network, Pereira wrote: Cuba has officially requested in a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is the acting president of this assembly, to be included in the group BRICS is placed as a “partner country”; Cuba is strengthening its position as a key player in global geopolitics and hopeful for the countries of the global south.
Previously, the Russian ambassador to Cuba, Viktor Koronelli, announced in an interview with “Sputnik” that Moscow expects a delegation of Cuba to participate in this meeting. Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has received an invitation from Putin.
Last week, Maxim Ryzhenkov, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus, claimed that the new wave of expansion of the “BRICS” group and the addition of new countries at the annual meeting of this group in the Russian city of Kazan in It will be announced in October.
Ryzhenkov predicted on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York that BRICS could add at least ten new members, while expressing optimism that His country’s request for membership should be approved.
The words of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus come while the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Sergey Lavrov, said during a meeting on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly: BRICS members are new members of this group. They don’t consider it possible in the current situation.
Lavrov emphasized: Regarding the expansion of the BRICS group, all the current members of BRICS consider it reasonable not to admit new members to this group in the current situation. We used to be 5 countries, but now we are 10 countries. BRICS needs to provide conditions for the gradual entry and familiarization of new countries with the rules of this group, which have been formed over the years.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia added in his speech that currently more than 20 countries have asked for partnership and cooperation with BRICS and 10 countries also want permanent membership in BRICS. At the BRICS meeting in Kazan, suggestions will be made about the future members of this group.
The BRICS group was formed in 2009 by the four countries Brazil, India, Russia, and China, and South Africa joined this country in 2010. Since the beginning of this year, five countries, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and Ethiopia have been added to the BRICS group.
