Russia takes over BRICS chair from South Africa
Russia this weekend took over the chairmanship, as it prepares to host the summit next year, which will include the new countries that were added to the grouping at the 15th Summit held in Johannesburg in August.
The extended BRICS summit with the BRICS plus summit in August where we had more than 60 delegations was the largest gathering we ever had.
“This also demonstrated the solidarity that we enjoy in the Global South and clearly indicated the new confidence and belief that we can make a difference in reshaping the evolving global order.”
The Johannesburg II Declaration that came out of the summit highlighted the progressive thinking of the bloc as it reaffirmed the countries’ commitment to the bloc’s spirit of mutual respect and understanding, sovereign equality, solidarity, democracy, openness, inclusiveness, strengthened collaboration and consensus.
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