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Dont worry, just four more years with this Western Establisment and te West will stuff them. Promise! China and India on the sidelines signed a border agreement, what in the hell is the West doing to counter this? Chastizing Israel or funding Chinas expansion? Inside the big summit where Putin hopes to defy western pressure on Ukraine war.
The group’s acronym comes from its first five members — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — but Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates were allowed to join earlier this year.
Together, they represent more of the world’s population and GDP than the European Union or the G7, the organization formed by seven of the world’s largest industrialized nations, according to the European Parliament.
Russia holds the rotating presidency and will be hoping this year's summit will allow the country to negotiate deals with major players such as India and China to help shore up its economy and war effort by expanding trade and bypassing Western sanctions.
For the other participants, it’s a chance to amplify their voices, although it is a growing mix of nations with deep ideological divisions and alliances who rarely see eye to eye, and some have criticized Russia's actions in Ukraine.
Careful choreography will aim to conceal some of those rifts.
Russia and Iranian protocol teams huddled together in a Kazan hotel Sunday planning the arrival of Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian.
On the same day Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the President of the UAE and a close U.S. partner, met with President Putin at his residence in a Moscow suburb for talks that went on until midnight.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan sign a wall at newly opened education center in Moscow on Monday.Mikhail Metzel / Pool via AP
In a statement to NBC News Monday Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE’s deputy prime minister and foreign minister, said his country was “committed to fostering dialogue and international cooperation through multilateral platforms, including the BRICS.”
On Monday night, the Kremlin announced a schedule that might allow the UAE's leader to leave Russia before the Iranian president’s meeting with Putin on Wednesday.
The group’s acronym comes from its first five members — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — but Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates were allowed to join earlier this year.
Together, they represent more of the world’s population and GDP than the European Union or the G7, the organization formed by seven of the world’s largest industrialized nations, according to the European Parliament.
Russia holds the rotating presidency and will be hoping this year's summit will allow the country to negotiate deals with major players such as India and China to help shore up its economy and war effort by expanding trade and bypassing Western sanctions.
For the other participants, it’s a chance to amplify their voices, although it is a growing mix of nations with deep ideological divisions and alliances who rarely see eye to eye, and some have criticized Russia's actions in Ukraine.
Careful choreography will aim to conceal some of those rifts.
Russia and Iranian protocol teams huddled together in a Kazan hotel Sunday planning the arrival of Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian.
On the same day Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the President of the UAE and a close U.S. partner, met with President Putin at his residence in a Moscow suburb for talks that went on until midnight.
In a statement to NBC News Monday Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE’s deputy prime minister and foreign minister, said his country was “committed to fostering dialogue and international cooperation through multilateral platforms, including the BRICS.”
On Monday night, the Kremlin announced a schedule that might allow the UAE's leader to leave Russia before the Iranian president’s meeting with Putin on Wednesday.
