There is growing interest among other countries to become Brics members. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will travel to Johannesburg instead.
There is growing interest in the bloc – at least 40 countries have expressed interest in joining, and 23 of those have formally submitted applications to become Brics members.Mr Anil Sooklal, South Africa’s ambassador-at-large for Asia and Brics, told AFP on Friday that one of the reasons countries are lining up to join is “the very polarised world we live in, that has been further polarised by the Russia-Ukraine crisis, and where countries are being forced to take sides”.
Dr Lebogang Legodi, international politics lecturer at the University of Limpopo, agrees that many states keen on joining the group “are seeing Brics as an alternative to the current hegemony” in world affairs.
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