The BRICS nations’ leadership of the G20 has strengthened the Global South’s role, advancing a more equitable and multipolar world order, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated at a press conference after the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting in South Africa, TASS reports.
“At the global level, there is significant attention on the role played by BRICS. We have informed our colleagues in detail about the outcomes of last year’s BRICS summit in Kazan, where we formulated several promising ideas relevant to the G20 mandate. These include agreements on launching BRICS payment and settlement mechanisms, an investment platform, and a grain exchange,” Lavrov said. “The G20, as a platform for dialogue between established and emerging centers of power, should retain its economic focus, as originally intended when the association was created in 2008, without the politicization of its agenda.”
