JOHANNESBURG, Aug 24 (Reuters) - The BRICS group of nations has decided to invite six countries - Argentina, Egypt, Iran, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates - to become new members of the bloc, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday.
The debate over expanding the BRICS bloc, comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, has topped the agenda at a three-day summit in Johannesburg ending on Thursday.
While all BRICS members have publicly expressed support for growing the bloc, there were divisions among the leaders over how much and how quickly.
Reporting by Bhargav Acharya, Carien du Plessis and Anait Miridzhanian Editing by Alexander Winning
The point isn’t to support them, it’s to end the western forever wars, break dollar hegemony and negate the ability of the Washington consensus to effect change in these countries
The end goal is native socialist development and eventual overthrow of these regimes, whether thru peaceful or violent means, that trajectory is infinitely more likely to be realized when these states don’t have the US empire acting as a scaffold