In a speech, which was transmitted via video to the meeting in Johannesburg, Putin invited the representatives of the other member states Brazil, India, China and South Africa to the Russian city of Kazan in October 2024.Putin announced that there would be more than 200 political, economic and social events under Russia’s BRICS presidency in the coming year. The ICC warrant, for alleged war crimes in Ukraine, means that Putin would have faced a possible arrest had he attended in person because South Africa is a member of the ICC. Putin used a video address to the summit leaders to reiterate Russian justifications for cancelling a grain export agreement with Ukraine and made sharp criticism of the West and of Kyiv. Is the world future in BRICS?
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