The Brics group will generate most of the global economic growth in the coming years thanks to its size and relatively fast growth compared with that of developed Western nations, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday.
Putin will host a summit of the group in the city of Kazan from October 22 to 24. He hopes to build up Brics — which has expanded to include Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates as well as Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — as a powerful counterweight to the West in global politics and trade.
"The countries in our association are essentially the drivers of global economic growth. In the foreseeable future, Brics will generate the main increase in global GDP," Putin told officials and businessmen at a Brics business forum in Moscow.
"The economic growth of Brics members will increasingly depend less on external influence or interference. This is essentially economic sovereignty."
Next week's Brics summit is being presented by Moscow as evidence that Western efforts to isolate Russia over its actions in Ukraine have failed.
Russia wants other countries to work with it to overhaul the global financial system and end the dominance of the US dollar.
China, India and the UAE confirmed on Friday their leaders will attend the summit.
Putin says Brics will generate most of global economic growth
Image: Valeriy Sharifulin/BRICS-RUSSIA2024.RU
The Brics group will generate most of the global economic growth in the coming years thanks to its size and relatively fast growth compared with that of developed Western nations, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday.
Putin will host a summit of the group in the city of Kazan from October 22 to 24. He hopes to build up Brics — which has expanded to include Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates as well as Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — as a powerful counterweight to the West in global politics and trade.
"The countries in our association are essentially the drivers of global economic growth. In the foreseeable future, Brics will generate the main increase in global GDP," Putin told officials and businessmen at a Brics business forum in Moscow.
"The economic growth of Brics members will increasingly depend less on external influence or interference. This is essentially economic sovereignty."
Next week's Brics summit is being presented by Moscow as evidence that Western efforts to isolate Russia over its actions in Ukraine have failed.
Russia wants other countries to work with it to overhaul the global financial system and end the dominance of the US dollar.
China, India and the UAE confirmed on Friday their leaders will attend the summit.
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