Moscow backs NATO country’s BRICS membership bid

from RT

Türkiye’s determination to join BRICS reflects the appeal of the economic group, which is based on respect for international law and pragmatism, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.  

Ankara announced in September that it had formally applied to become a full-fledged BRICS member, making it the first NATO state to seek membership in the group.   

In an interview with the Turkish daily Hurriyet on Friday, Lavrov said Russia welcomes Türkiye’s bid to become part of the group, which already accounts for 45% of the world’s population.    

“We stand for expanding BRICS ties with the countries of the Global Majority – primarily with those who share a focus on strengthening multilateral principles, pursue a sovereign foreign policy, and do not join unilateral sanctions,” the foreign minister stated...

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BRICS meeting in Russia's Kazan wraps up: Annual summit concludes with Putin address

 from al Jazeera English

Key Takeaways from BRICS Summit 2024

by Scott Creighton

“Strengthening Multilateralism for Fair Global Development and Security.”

 'BRICS members introduced a payment system named BRICS Pay designed to facilitate transactions and the interchange of financial information between central banks of partnered nations, serving as an alternative to the Western interbank system...

 13 nations have been added as partner countries of BRICS: Algeria, Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Nigeria, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam...

The BRICS Kazan Declaration has been adopted.^[6][7] BRICS nations endorse reform of the UN and Security Council and the full participation of the State of Palestine in the United Nations, contingent upon the two-state solution'

The following 28 also nations attended 2024 BRICS Summit in Kazan Russia. The summit was lead by leaders from Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Iran, Ethiopia and UAE.

BRICS Summit Highlights ‘Twilight of US Hegemony’, Marks ‘Official Launch of Multipolar World Order’

(propagandists from the NYT are flipping out and working in overdrive over the meeting)

from Sputnik News

Thursday marked the fourth and final day of the 16th Summit of the BRICS bloc, held this year in Kazan, Russia. Packed with dozens of high-level meetings and bilateral talks and summarized in a 134-point joint declaration, the summit also had plenty of symbolic meaning, which observers unpacked for Sputnik.

 

“The BRICS Summit in Kazan is undoubtedly one of the most important global political and diplomatic events of this year as it brought together the leaders of the expanded BRICS family for the first time,” Professor Alexis Habiyaremye, a senior researcher with DSI/NRF, South African Research Chair in Industrial Development, University of Johannesburg, told Sputnik, summarizing the summit’s results as the long-anticipated event reached its final day.

 

“The grouping has now become the global growth engine and its economic muscle is by any measure stronger than that of the old hegemonic grouping. One can say that it's the official launch of the multilateral world order, the twilight of the US hegemony,” Habiyaremye

The Kazan Declaration, published Wednesday and featuring 134 provisions aimed at "creating a more just and democratic world order," "enhancing cooperation for global and regional stability and security," “fostering economic and financial cooperation” and "strengthening people-to-people exchanges for social and economic development."...

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