South Africa’s Ramaphosa gives full support to expansion of Brics group ahead of summit

Mr Ramaphosa said South Africa strove to work with all nations to achieve global peace and development. “It is for this reason that South Africa is a member of the Non-Aligned Movement, a forum of some 120 countries that are not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc,” he said.

South Africa is hosting the 15th Brics – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa – summit from Tuesday to Thursday, and during the gathering the leaders of the member nations aim to increase their political and economic ties as well as explore the group’s expansion. Mr Ramaphosa says more than 20 nations have formally asked to join the group, and a similar number have expressed an interest in doing so. Among those seeking to join Brics are Venezuela, Cuba and Iran, countries that have fallen foul of the West’s political and economic sanctions and are seeking an alternative home on the global stage.

The Brics expansion was first mooted at its annual conference last year in China, and senior officials from each member nation were tasked with exploring how best to increase the group’s number in a viable way. China’s president Xi Jinping, India’s prime minister Narendra Modi and Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will all attend the summit in person. Russia’s Vladimir Putin will participate virtually, as he faces an International Criminal Court arrest warrant for alleged war crimes in Ukraine. Were Mr Putin to travel to South Africa, the local authorities would be obliged to arrest him as the country is a member of The Hague-based ICC.

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