Russian President Vladimir Putin with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as they and different members within the BRICS Plus format assembly pose for a household picture in the course of the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, on October 24, 2024. | Picture credit score: Reuters
Turkey is set to pursue its talks with the BRICS group of rising market nations, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan mentioned on Thursday (Oct. 24, 2024) after Ankara turned the primary NATO member in search of to hitch.
Erdogan joined the summit on the invitation of his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin after asking final month to hitch the bloc that features Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
“We’re decided to advertise our dialogue with the BRICS household, with whom we have now developed shut relations based mostly on mutual respect and mutual profit,” he advised delegates on the BRICS discussion board within the Russian metropolis of Kazan.
If admitted, it might be the primary NATO member to hitch the alliance that sees itself as a counterweight to Western powers and whose members are deeply at odds with the West on a number of points, notably the present battle within the Center East.
“The political and monetary mechanisms that emerged after World Struggle II can’t fulfill what is anticipated of them,” Erdogan mentioned.
The BRICS, he added, made a “distinctive contribution… to constructing a extra simply world” by means of the “growth of world commerce, financial development and sustainable growth objectives.”
BRICS is an acronym for its 5 founding members, though the alliance added 4 nations this yr, three from the Center East, together with Iran.
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