BRICS Foreign Affairs Ministers are currently converging in Cape Town in their continued drive to thrash out a new path to multilateralism that will overhaul the domineering and divisive unipolar Western-led world order.
South Africa's Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor shakes hands with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, ahead of their bilateral meeting in Pretoria, South Africa, January 23, 2023.South Africa's Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor shakes hands with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, ahead of their bilateral meeting in Pretoria, South Africa, January 23, 2023.
China will be represented by the Vice Foreign Minister, Ma Zhaoxu, in the place of Foreign Minister Qin Gang. SA’s ambassador for BRICS, Anil Sooklal, says the country is steadfastly committed cooperation and solidarity among members of the strategic global bloc. SA has assumed the BRICS presidency from China. Amb Sooklal says during that time, a series of fruitful achievements were made during China’s tenure at the helm of BRICS.Ma Zhaoxu said China and SA “enjoy a special friendship of comradeship and brotherhood”.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has stated that SA’s BRICS membership is destined to help the country to improve its competitiveness, trade linkages and economic growth. SA has also benefited handsomely from cooperative mechanisms under the BRICS framework, having received 5.4 billion US dollars in financial support from the New Development Bank.
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