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Egypt on the way to BRICS membership

The BRICS group is not an official organization, but the leaders of its five countries meet annually to deepen and strengthen cooperation between it.
08.05.23 | Source: modern diplomacy

The issue of Egypt’s membership in the BRICS is an important and urgent matter, writes Cairo newspaper “Al-Masry Al-Youm”.


BRICS is a group created in 2009 that includes China, Russia, India, Brazil and South Africa. The BRICS countries represent 42% of the world’s population, 24% of global GDP. They account for 16% of world exports and 15% of world imports of goods and services.


The BRICS group is not an official organization, but the leaders of its five countries meet annually to deepen and strengthen cooperation between it.


South Africa plans to hold the next summit in Durban at the end of August.


Talk of Egypt’s BRICS membership is not new, and a reader of former Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheith’s book ‘My Certificates’ finds the roots of this aspiration as part of the expansion of Egypt’s advancement in the world.


However, there has always been a question about the advisability of Egypt joining this group. There are those who are skeptical and believe that the BRICS ‘has not achieved much since its inception,’ that it is ‘just a framework for coordination, and not an economic bloc’ or an international organization ‘in the full sense of the word,’ and that some of its countries are ‘going through difficult circumstances,’ or there is a ‘certain tension or heterogeneity between them.’

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