Foreign Ministers of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) met this Thursday in the South African city of Cape Town Author: Reuters

CAPE TOWN, 1 June. – Foreign Ministers of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) met this Thursday in the South African city of Cape Town to discuss regional and global events and developments, as well as prepare a summit of heads of state and government of the economic bloc, which will be held in Johannesburg from 22 to 24 August.

South Africa’s head of international relations and cooperation, Naledi Pandor, who chaired the meeting, said the meeting, which continues today Friday, will serve to promote new multilateralism, and expansion of the economic group is expected to be in the chancellors’ analysis.

Pandor and his colleagues, Vice Foreign Minister of China Ma Zhaoxu; Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira; Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar considered two other items on the agenda: the New Development Bank and BRICS Institutional Development.

South Africa’s foreign minister, in line with her country’s policy of inclusive engagement, has invited 15 foreign ministers from Africa and the global South to the Friends of BRICS meeting this Friday, June 2, in that city.

Cuba will participate with a delegation led by First Deputy Foreign Minister Gerardo Peñalver, which also includes Rodolfo Benítez, Director General of the General Directorate of Multilateral Relations and International Law of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Enrique Horta, Ambassador of Cuba. to South Africa.

According to the Cuban Foreign Ministry, this is the first time the island has been represented at the BRICS meeting, and this time it is being done as the chair of the G-77 plus China.

Source: Juventud Rebelde