JOHANNESBURG, Aug 24 (Reuters) - The BRICS group of nations has decided to invite six countries - Argentina, Egypt, Iran, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates - to become new members of the bloc, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday.
The debate over expanding the BRICS bloc, comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, has topped the agenda at a three-day summit in Johannesburg ending on Thursday.
While all BRICS members have publicly expressed support for growing the bloc, there were divisions among the leaders over how much and how quickly.
Reporting by Bhargav Acharya, Carien du Plessis and Anait Miridzhanian Editing by Alexander Winning
I’ve never quite understood what binds the BRICS together other than some vague opposition to the West. These five countries are incredibly diverse, and adding more countries from three different continents isn’t gonna change that.
They should add Belarus and Libya as well
Love the term vague opposition.
It seems like the thought with BRICS is “we like how alliances which include the US keep the people down but we don’t want to do it with them”
One broken system isn’t enough. We somehow need multiple and they each need their own rogues gallery smh
I see the naming being the next difficult topic.
Just call the whole thing X.
Elon Musk becomes a member as a sovereign citizen.
Underrated comment.
More international economic cooperation is always good. This has a really good chance of helping to diffuse tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia… which is looking really good for the near-term stability of the Middle East. Thank god.
Shittiest off brand NATO
