Venezuelan President: Argentina's decision to refuse to join BRICS is stupid

Maduro said in an interview with the French magazine Le Monde Diplomatic that the decision of the President of Argentina Javier Milei to refuse to join the BRICS group is a move against the people of Argentina. The President of Venezuela added that the decision of Javier Milei will return Argentina to the 19th century. Before that, the President of Venezuela talked about Miley's victory in the Argentine presidential election and said: "The neo-fascism of the right wing has won the election with a colonial plan prepared for this country. This movement intends to implement neo-colonial plans in America of Latin and the Caribbean". Javier Miley The BRICS group originally included the countries of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa; and the Islamic Republic of Iran, along with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Argentina and Ethiopia, are new members who were welcomed to join the group and their full membership officially began in January 2024. On Tuesday of last week, Sergei Lavrov, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia announced in a speech he gave in the international cooperation committee of the Russian ruling party United Russia, that apart from the member countries in the BRICS group, other 30 countries want to have cooperation with the group. During the 15th BRICS Summit held in Johannesburg, South Africa in August 2023, the community agreed to the official membership of six countries in the economic bloc. However, after Javier Milei came to power in Argentina, the country has changed its decision to join BRICS. Algeria, Bahrain, Kuwait, Morocco and Palestine are five Arab countries that have recently expressed their desire to join the BRICS group.