ASIATODAY.ID, JAKARTA – Russian Ambassador Lyudmila Vorobyova said that Indonesia is a strong candidate to join BRICS.
He said that despite being a strong candidate, Indonesia has not yet officially submitted an application to join BRICS.
“In my opinion, Indonesia is a very strong candidate to join BRICS. “However, it is all up to Indonesia which has not submitted an official application, even though Indonesian President Joko Widodo has attended the latest BRICS conference,” he said, as reported by TASS, Monday, February 19 2024.
According to him, with the complete results of the Indonesian presidential election later, only after that does he hope that there will be serious efforts from the Indonesian side.
As is known, the BRICS group of countries has now gone through two waves of expansion since its founding in 2006. First, in 2011, South Africa joined the founding members of BRICS namely Brazil, Russia, India and China.
Then, in August 2023, 6 new member countries, including Argentina, were invited to join BRICS following the intergovernmental group’s summit in Johannesburg. However, in December 2023, Argentina’s new government led by President Javier Milei announced that it had temporarily rejected the invitation.
The rejection from Argentina was made on the grounds that it considered integration with BRICS impractical. Meanwhile, 5 new member countries, namely Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have started working as full BRICS member countries since January 1. (ATN)
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