Russia: All BRICS members have equal status

  Mikhail Ulyanov, the permanent representative of Russia in international organizations, has compared the BRICS group with Western organizations and said: "There is no internal or external leader in BRICS, and all members of this group have the same status". Ulyanov has explained in a message he wrote in the form of a question on the social network "X" (former Twitter): what is the main difference between Western institutions (G7 Group, NATO, European Union, etc.) on the one hand and BRICS on the other the other side? He added: "All BRICS members have equal status. Can you say the same about Western institutions?" In a similar analogy, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov has also said, the difference between BRICS and G7 or other Western-oriented alliances is that they all look at the United States. Sergey Lavrov Russia's top diplomat added:

BRICS leaders are dealing with real issues, while Western politicians and their journalists are more interested in wagging their tongues. Speaking of Western politicians and their journalists who spoke of BRICS with disdain, Lavrov said: "This shows that they are just wagging their tongues, while we are using our minds and dealing with real issues." BRICS is the name of a group of countries with emerging and growing economies. This name is derived from the first letters of the English names of the member countries which are Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. In a recent meeting, which was organized by South Africa and held in an environment of intense confrontation between Russia and China on the one hand and the United States and Europe on the other hand, the membership requests of six countries were accepted. By 2024, the six countries of Iran, Argentina, Ethiopia and the three Arab countries of the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Egypt will be added to the group.../