2023-06-22 08:21:00
“It is up to the host party to define the circle of guests, it is the usual practice. No less important is that this must be preceded by consultations with all the BRICS members. The presence of a head of state who implements such a hostile policy and unacceptable for us, argues with such emphasis and conviction that Russia must be isolated in the international arena and shares NATO’s approach to inflict a strategic defeat on us, is clearly an inappropriate guest for the BRICS summit,” Riabkov said before journalists.
The vice foreign minister added that Russia shared his point of view with the organizers.
“We do not hide our position, we have communicated it to our colleagues in the Republic of South Africa and we hope that they will take it fully into consideration,” he said.
The 15th summit of the BRICS group will take place from August 22-24 in Johannesburg.
French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said on June 19, following meeting her South African counterpart Naledi Pandor in Pretoria, that the president Emmanuel Macron He aspires to be the first Western leader invited to a BRICS summit.
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