Despite adding nine new partner countries, Russia's BRICS chairmanship falls short of securing full membership for key targets like Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
Russia , in the final days of its BRICS chairmanship, has succeeded in recruiting nine new partner countries for the geopolitical bloc but has failed to secure deals with key targets such as Saudi Arabia and Turkey . Despite months of effort from Russia n leaders, the Saudi and Turkish governments are both still stalling their decisions on invitations to affiliate with the bloc, in which Russia and China play leading roles.
Turkey’s decision has been closely watched because it would have been the first member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to be associated with BRICS. The BRICS group has emerged as a rising rival to the Western-dominated G7 group of countries in recent years. The nine-member bloc, which represents almost half of the world’s population and about a quarter of the global economy, is working on a new global payments system to bypass Western sanctions in the banking sector. The group’s name is an acronym for its earliest members: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. It expanded last year to include Ethiopia, Egypt, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates. On Wednesday, nine new countries will join the bloc as partner states – one level below full membership – when Russia hands over the rotating BRICS leadership to Brazil, officials in Moscow said last week. The new partners are Indonesia, Malaysia, Cuba, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Bolivia, Thailand and Uganda. But four other countries – Turkey, Nigeria, Vietnam and Algeria – were invited to become partner states at the latest BRICS summit in October and have not accepted so far. None has stated publicly any reasons for the decision. Saudi Arabia, meanwhile, was invited to become a full member of the bloc in 2023, and Moscow had publicly counted the oil-rich country as a membe
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