Cuba on the waiting list for full entry into the BRICS

(ANSA) – HAVANA, OCTOBER 24 – Cuba and 12 other countries, including Bolivia, Turkey, Indonesia and Nigeria, are now associate members of the Brics. This is what “emerged during the XVI Summit of the organization which concludes today in Kazan, Russia”, celebrated the government journalistic site Cubadebate on its homepage, relaunching a post from the Bolivarian Alliance for the peoples of our America – Treaty People’s Trade Agreement (Alba-Tcp) on its official that the Brics seek to strengthen multilateral cooperation to expand their influence on the international scene” reads the post relaunched by Cubadebate, which highlights the presence in Kazan of the Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla. Unlike the last summit in which the five Brics countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) were joined by others, in 2022 in Beijing, this time, however, no official statement was issued on the website of the intergovernmental organization which brings together some of the most important economies on the planet. Perhaps because on that occasion the entry of five countries was announced but then, due to Javier Milei’s surprising victory in Argentina, only Iran, Ethiopia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates entered in 2023. To avoid the risk of gaffes, therefore, no official statement, also because among the new associated countries of the Brics there is Saudi Arabia which, despite not having vetoed, sent a second-level representative to the Russian summit due to the reports thesis with Iran, which instead of the Brics is a full member. (HANDLE).