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BRICS invites six countries including Saudi Arabia, Iran to be new members (www.reuters.com)
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JOHANNESBURG, Aug 24 (Reuters) - The BRICS group of nations has decided to invite six countries - Argentina, Egypt, Iran, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates - to become new members of the bloc, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday.

The debate over expanding the BRICS bloc, comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, has topped the agenda at a three-day summit in Johannesburg ending on Thursday.

While all BRICS members have publicly expressed support for growing the bloc, there were divisions among the leaders over how much and how quickly.

Reporting by Bhargav Acharya, Carien du Plessis and Anait Miridzhanian Editing by Alexander Winning

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[–] Bonifratz@feddit.de 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I've never quite understood what binds the BRICS together other than some vague opposition to the West. These five countries are incredibly diverse, and adding more countries from three different continents isn't gonna change that.

[–] clutchmattic@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

They should add Belarus and Libya as well

[–] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Love the term vague opposition.

It seems like the thought with BRICS is "we like how alliances which include the US keep the people down but we don't want to do it with them"

[–] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

One broken system isn't enough. We somehow need multiple and they each need their own rogues gallery smh

[–] thilo@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see the naming being the next difficult topic.

[–] Bonifratz@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just call the whole thing X.

[–] taanegl@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Elon Musk becomes a member as a sovereign citizen.

[–] taanegl@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Underrated comment.

[–] zephyreks@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

More international economic cooperation is always good. This has a really good chance of helping to diffuse tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia... which is looking really good for the near-term stability of the Middle East. Thank god.

[–] HomerAtTheBat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Shittiest off brand NATO