BRICS Draws Membership Requests From 19 Nations Before Summit (Bloomberg)

✅ Nineteen countries expressed an interest in joining the #BRICS group of nations as it prepares to hold an annual summit in South Africa.

✅ The emerging-markets bloc of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa will meet in Cape Town on June 2-3 to discuss its enlargement, Anil Sooklal, South Africa’s ambassador to the group, said in an interview in the city on Monday.

✅ The foreign ministers from the five member states have all confirmed they’ll attend the discussions in June, Sooklal said.

✅ Saudi Arabia, Iran, Algeria, Argentina, are among the countries who’ve formally asked to join

✅ If accepted, the new proposed BRICS members would create an entity with a GDP 30% larger than the United States, over 50% of the global population and in control of 60% of global gas reserves.

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