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BRICS Foreign Ministers to Discuss Alliance Expansion at UNGA

The foreign ministers of the BRICS countries will discuss the issue of expanding the organization on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly on September 26, said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov.

“In pursuance of the instructions of the aforementioned meeting of leaders, modalities of the category of BRICS partner states are being worked out. And literally next week, on September 26, in New York, the BRICS foreign ministers will continue negotiations on this most important issue,” TASS quotes him as saying on the sidelines of the IV Eurasian Women's Forum.

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that 34 countries had expressed a desire to join BRICS.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov expressed confidence that the BRICS development trend will only strengthen.

 

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