MOSCOW\/TASS\/. Saudi Arabia has confirmed its membership in BRICS by participating in two group events in 2024, thereby solidifying the intergovernmental organization\u2019s evolving structure,\u201d stated Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov, who also serves as Moscow\u2019s Sherpa in the group, during an interview for the inaugural issue of the TASS \u201cBRICS Bulletin.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBRICS\u2019 composition is now quite clear. President Putin declared on January 1 that five countries, including Saudi Arabia, were joining BRICS. Saudi Arabia neither denied this nor commented that this information was incorrect,\u201d the senior diplomat highlighted. He stressed that Riyadh has already participated in \u201cat least two BRICS events under Russia\u2019s chairmanship.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ryabkov mentioned that Saudi representatives informed Moscow that \u201cthe decision-making process [on accession] is ongoing.\u201d \u201cWe respect that. We observed that their Sherpa did not attend the first meeting of Sherpas and Sous-Sherpas in Moscow, but this neither negates nor invalidates the aforementioned facts,\u201d the senior diplomat emphasized.<\/p>\n
Initially, the BRICS group consisted of Brazil, Russia, India, and China. South Africa joined the association in 2011. On January 1, 2024, Egypt, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Ethiopia formally became members of BRICS, while Argentina declined the group\u2019s invitation to join.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MOSCOW\/TASS\/. Saudi Arabia has confirmed its membership in BRICS by participating in two group events in 2024, thereby solidifying the intergovernmental organization\u2019s evolving structure,\u201d stated Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov, who also serves as Moscow\u2019s Sherpa in the group, during an interview for the inaugural issue of the TASS \u201cBRICS Bulletin.\u201d \u201cBRICS\u2019 composition is […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":""},"categories":[8273],"tags":[154,1701,7857,8278],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Russia.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11356,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11354\/revisions\/11356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}