Cuba’s Foreign Minister Carlos Miguel Pereira invites emerging economies to join the BRICS group announced Tuesday.
“Cuba formally requested inclusion as a “partner country” in BRICS through a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the group’s chairman. “The countries of the South are solidifying their goals and raising the expectations of the world,” Pereira told X.
Pereira’s overture to President Putin comes two weeks before BRICS members meet at the annual BRICS summit, scheduled for October 22-24 in the Russian city of Kazan.
The proposal for the Caribbean nation’s membership arrived shortly after President Putin met with Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev, who confirmed that Azerbaijan was also pushing for membership.
Membership in BRICS is by invitation only, and several countries were given the opportunity to join earlier this year, including Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates. Argentina also received an invitation, but said it would not participate.
BRICS was established in 2009 to foster closer ties between Russia, China, India and Brazil and currently consists of nine member states. It is becoming a geopolitical and economic rival of the G7 countries to the West.
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