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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro hopes that the country will join BRICS next year, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports. The head of state spoke about this during an interview with local media. He noted that the decision on this could be made at the next unification summit, which is scheduled for 2024.
Nicolas Maduro called BRICS ''the future of humanity'' and said that Caracas is relying on the alliance. At the moment, he noted, a new system of international relations is being created, and BRICS will become one of its key parts.
The head of Venezuela also criticized the decision of Argentine President Javier Miley, who withdrew the decision to join BRICS. Nicolas Maduro is confident that in this way Buenos Aires is pulling the country into the 19th century. He added that Miley's policy is aimed at implementing Western plans to turn Argentina into its vassal.
Russia took the chairmanship of BRICS in 2024. Last year, several more countries joined BRICS: Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and the United Arab Emirates.
Vladimir Putin promised that Moscow will do everything possible to ensure that the new participants fully integrate into the work of BRICS, preserving traditions and being guided by existing experience.
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