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BRICS group invites 6 new members to join next year
By Jerry
The BRICS group — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — on Thursday said it had invited six countries to join its ranks.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa made the announcement on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
“We have consensus on the first phase of this expansion process,” he said, adding that the newcomers would be full members as of January 1 next year.
The move is aimed at increasing the clout of a bloc that has pledged to champion the “Global South.”
The new countries invited are Argentina, Egypt, Iran, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Reflecting on the current world order, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the BRICS summit, “Today’s global governance structures reflect yesterday’s world.” Reform was needed for multilateral institutions to be universal, he added.
“They were largely created in the aftermath of World War II when many African countries were still ruled by colonial powers and were not even at the table,” Guterres said, listing the UN Security Council, World Bank and International Monetary Fund as examples.
