On June 25, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced that Brics, after accepting five new members in 2024, will conclude “break” in terms of expanding the structure.
The announcement he made during a meeting with the speaker of the upper house of the parliament of Belarus, a candidate country for membership.
“With an absolute majority of votes, the ‘Ten’ decided to take a break in accepting additional members, in order to ‘digest’ the recent arrival of five new countries,” said Sergey Lavrov, as reported by the Russian economic site RBK.
He specified that the system of“steps” was under study, including status “partner country”, which would precede that of “member”.
No participation in international sanctions
Experts explain this suspension by the need for current participants “specify questions related to the functioning of the group as precisely as possible”, such as the right to access joint bodies, but also to “to draw the broad outlines of the future of the member states”, links page Vzgliad.
It must be said, the title develops, that the number of countries wishing to join BRICS continues to increase. According to presidential adviser Juri UĊĦakov, a “thirty” they would file claims.
Recently, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov presented one of the necessary conditions for joining the alliance: “Do not participate in the illegal policy of international sanctions and restrictive measures applied against other BRICS member countries, especially against Russia.”
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