By Manal Abdel Fattah
The Embassy of the Federal Republic of Russia in Cairo welcomed Egypt’s accession to the BRICS group, after announcing that its country would assume the presidency of the economic bloc at the beginning of January 2024.
The Embassy of the Russian Federation said in its comment on its country assuming the presidency of the BRICS group: “Russia welcomes Egypt’s accession to the BRICS, and is pleased to continue cooperation in order to deepen the partnership and achieve many achievements.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that the Federal Republic of Russia had assumed the presidency of the BRICS, a group that includes 10 countries in accordance with the decision of the 15-nation BRICS summit approved last August, which was joined by Egypt, Iran, the United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. and Ethiopia as full members, which is a clear indication of the group’s increasing influence and role in global affairs.
Putin added, in a statement, that the BRICS group is attracting an increasing number of supportive and like-minded countries that share the principles on which the group’s work is based, which are equality in sovereignty, respect for choosing one’s own path of development, taking into account common interests, transparency and consensus, in addition to striving to form a multipolar system. The model of the global financial and trading system and the search for collective solutions to the most pressing contemporary issues.
The Russian President added that Russia’s presidency of the BRICS in 2024 under the slogan “Strengthening multilateralism for equitable global development and security” will focus on positive and constructive cooperation with all concerned countries.
He continued: We will make every effort to contribute to the harmonious integration of new participants into all of the group’s work formats, in order to preserve traditions and build on the experience that the group has gained in previous years.
The President said: Naturally, we will take into account the willingness of many other countries, numbering about 30, to join BRICS and its multidimensional agenda in one form or another, and to this end we will begin intensive work to crystallize the modalities of the new category of partner countries in “BRICS.” BRICS.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Monday that the BRICS group is attracting more like-minded countries, and that about 30 countries want to join the BRICS economic bloc.
Putin said, in a statement on the occasion of the start of the Russian Federation’s presidency of the BRICS group, today, Monday: “The BRICS group is attracting an increasing number of supportive and like-minded countries.”
Putin added that these countries share “the basic principles on which activities are based, which are sovereignty equality, respect for each country’s choice of development path, mutual consideration of interests, openness, consensus, and the aspiration to create a multipolar global system and a fair model for the global financial and trade system.” “And searching for collective solutions to the most pressing problems of the present time.”
Putin stressed that Russia “will take into account the willingness of many other countries to join the BRICS group in one way or another, and there are about 30 countries ready for that, and Russia will add this to its agenda.”
