BRICS group wants to include six countries – including Iran and Saudi Arabia

The BRICS countries have decided to expand. South Africa’s President Ramaphosa, host of the BRICS summit, announced that it had decided to admit six new countries on January 1, 2024 – including Iran and Saudi Arabia.

According to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, the BRICS countries want to take in six more countries. The group has decided to invite Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as “full members” of the BRICS, Ramaphosa said at the BRICS summit in Johannesburg. The entry of the new members will take effect on January 1, 2024.

Yesterday he said that the group of states, which currently includes China, Russia, India, Brazil and South Africa, wanted to expand in order to gain influence worldwide. “We have reached an agreement on the issue of enlargement,” South Africa’s Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor said on Wednesday on Ubuntu Radio, a station of the South African Foreign Ministry.

China and Russia in particular are insisting on a counterweight to the West, while Brazil, on the other hand, rejects a frontline position with the G7 alliance of the most important western industrialized countries.