{"id":358735,"date":"2023-08-17T16:27:52","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T19:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/twenty-two-countries-officially-requested-to-join-brics\/"},"modified":"2024-03-24T11:34:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T14:34:54","slug":"twenty-two-countries-officially-requested-to-join-brics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/twenty-two-countries-officially-requested-to-join-brics\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-two countries officially requested to join BRICS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bras\u00edlia \u2013 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil said 22 countries have formally applied to <strong>join BRICS, <\/strong>a grouping of the world economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The number was presented Wednesday (16) by the secretary for Asian and the Pacific of Brazil\u2019s Foreign Ministry, Eduardo Paes Saboia, during a briefing on the trip that president <strong>Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva<\/strong> will make to South Africa, Angola, and S\u00e3o Tome e Pr\u00edncipe.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_334090\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-334090\" style=\"width: 326px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/itamaraty-brics-600x359.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-334090\" src=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/itamaraty-brics-600x359.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"326\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-334090\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Saboia gave a briefing on the trip of Lula<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In Johannesburg, South Africa, Lula will participate from August 22 to 24 in the 15<sup>th<\/sup> BRICS Summit. From there, he\u2019ll continue to Angola, then S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 e Pr\u00edncipe.<\/p>\n<p>According to ambassador Saboia, the BRICS Summit meeting will feature 40 heads of state from the African and Asian continents, besides Latin America and the <strong>Middle East<\/strong>. This will be the first in-person meeting between the BRICS leaders after the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The ambassador highlighted some issues that are expected to be on the agenda. One of them refers to the entry of new members. \u201cThey\u2019ll talk about criteria and standards to be adopted to inform the entry of new members into the group,\u201d he said. Saboia pointed out that topic is nothing new. \u201cSince 2011 the interaction with non-member countries has been discussed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The war between Russia and Ukraine, the ambassador said, will be only internally discussed, during the so-called retreat, when BRICS heads of state and government meet behind closed doors. Another issue to be discussed by the group will be use of local currency or a potential BRICS reference unit for trade transactions. \u201cSome results are likely to arise in this matter,\u201d Saboia believes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translation by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil, the bloc has received requests from 22 nations to join it. The BRICS summit will take place later this month in Johannesburg and be attended by Middle East leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2315,"featured_media":350779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46555,106],"tags":[10245,44555,44554,34452,34446,44557],"class_list":{"0":"post-358735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-diplomacy","8":"category-foreign-affairs","9":"tag-brics-en","10":"tag-brics-summit","11":"tag-lula-brics","12":"tag-new-brics-members","13":"tag-novos-integrantes-brics-en","14":"tag-south-africa-brics-summit"},"wps_subtitle":"According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil, the bloc has received requests from 22 nations to join it. 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