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Tishwash: BRICS is considering the accession of Iran and Saudi Arabia
The BRICS group announced today, Wednesday, its readiness to decide at its conference this year on the membership of new countries wishing to join the group, which includes Russia, China, Brazil, India and South Africa.
agency statedbloomberg”South Africa’s representative to the group, Anil Soklal, confirmed that Saudi Arabia and Iran are among the countries that formally requested to join the group.
“bloombergHe pointed out that “expansion of the group may come in favorChinawhich seeks to strengthen its positions in the United Nations, andInternational Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and other international institutions,” and pointed out that “ChinaI started talking last year about expanding the group.”
he agency noted that “China’s gross domestic product is more than double the total output of the remaining BRICS members.”
Anil Soklal said, “The proposal to expand the” BRICS “will be one of the main points of the economic bloc this year under South Africa’s presidency of the group.”
He added, “More than 12 countries have knocked on the door of the group. We are in very advanced stages in looking at the membership of another group of countries.”
The report stated that “the potential changes of the BRICS group come at a time when European and North American countries seek to strengthen alliances, form new blocs, and sign trade and security agreements.”
While BRICS countries account for 42 percent of the world’s population, their members have less than 15 percent of the voting rights in the World Bank and International Monetary Fund for example. stated “bloomberg that the members of the group founded New Development Bank, to match International Monetary Fund And the World Bank, and later Bangladesh and the UAE joined this bank, and it is expected to join Egypt And Uruguay soon.”
And the agency indicated that “other countries that have expressed interest in joining the BRICS group are Argentina, the UAE, Algeria, and Egypt, Bahrain, and Indonesia, along with two countries from East Africa and one country from West Africa.
The establishment of BRICS was announced in 2006 by the first four BRIC countries, during a summit of foreign ministers .Brazil And Russia And India And China New York City in September 2006 on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
Member states link banking and monetary agreements to exchange currencies and increase trade in local currencies to reduce dependence on the dollar. link
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Nicola Sturgeon quits to let new leader build case for Scottish independence
Alistair Smout and Muvija M Wed, February 15, 2023
LONDON (Reuters) -Nicola Sturgeon resigned as Scottish first minister on Wednesday, saying her dominance over her party and the country was no longer the asset it once was in the fight for an independent Scotland.
In power since 2014, she said she had become too divisive – and too tired – to reach across the political divide, and she wanted to step away from the “brutality” of modern politics to focus on “Nicola Sturgeon the person”.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/scottish-first-minister-sturgeon-resign-100318557.html
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