HAVANA, Cuba, CMC—Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez says the Spanish-speaking Caribbean island is honored to hitch the intergovernmental group – BRICS as a accomplice. The president commented on the sixteenth BRICS Summit, which concluded earlier this week in Kazan, Russia.
Throughout the assembly, the alliance welcomed 13 international locations to take part as accomplice international locations.
Algeria, Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Nigeria, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam are the opposite international locations becoming a member of as companions.
Cuban international minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla additionally underscored Cuba’s dedication to working with the members to assemble a improvement and cooperation agenda that responds to the priorities of the South by being accepted as a accomplice nation.
The three-day summit, which was attended by leaders or representatives of 36 international locations, additionally highlighted the failure of United States-led efforts to isolate Russia over its actions in Ukraine.
The battle got here up repeatedly on the assembly, which noticed United Nations Secretary-Normal Antonio Guterres’s first go to to Russia in additional than two years and drew an indignant response from Kyiv.
Guterres known as for “simply peace” in Ukraine via the U.N. Constitution, worldwide legislation, and Normal Meeting resolutions. He additionally urged a direct finish to the combating in Gaza, Lebanon, and Sudan.
The summit additionally coated deepening monetary cooperation, together with the event of alternate options to Western-dominated fee techniques, efforts to settle regional conflicts, and enlargement of the BRICS group of countries.
When based in 2009, the alliance initially included Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. Since then, it has expanded to embrace Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia. Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Malaysia have formally utilized to develop into members, and a number of other different international locations have expressed curiosity in becoming a member of.
The Kremlin touted the summit as “the most important international coverage occasion ever held” by Russia.
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