Venezuela’s Maduro says searching for China’s assist to affix BRICS
by AFP Employees Writers
Beijing (AFP) Sept 10, 2023
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is searching for Beijing’s assist to affix the lately expanded BRICS group of rising economies, as he makes a state go to to China.
The BRICS bloc — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — agreed at their annual summit final month to confess six new full members.
In an interview with Chinese language state information company Xinhua on Saturday, Maduro mentioned he aimed to safe “the entry of Venezuela into BRICS, with the assist of China, with the assist of all international locations”.
Beijing, Maduro mentioned, might assist to realize the accession of “a rustic with the most important oil reserves on this planet”.
“The enlarged BRICS could possibly be outlined as the good engine for the acceleration of the beginning of a brand new world, a world of cooperation the place the worldwide south has the main voice,” Maduro informed Xinhua.
“The BRICS nations speed up the de-dollarization of the world, the emergence of a brand new worldwide monetary system, of a brand new simply financial order,” he mentioned.
Maduro arrived in China on Friday and is anticipated to remain till Thursday for his first state go to to the nation since 2018.
Beijing is Venezuela’s essential creditor and has shut ties with the diplomatically remoted, inflation-ravaged socialist nation.
The BRICS group will welcome new members Argentina, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates from January 1.
China views BRICS as a counterweight to multinational organisations it deems as dominated by america and different Western rivals.
Maduro’s go to comes as Xi skips a gathering of the G20 main economies in India.
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