Venezuela is on the path to becoming a member of BRICS and could be admitted to the international coalition soon, according to President Nicolas Maduro, Tass reports.
“I hope that at the summit in Moscow…Venezuela will enter BRICS as a permanent and full-fledged member from South America,” he said in an interview broadcast by Venezolana de Television. “We are actively working on this,” Maduro added.
“Venezuela is on its way to organically joining new global powers,” the president noted, adding that “BRICS represents a new world order without hegemony, a new bloc of power that [former Venezuelan President] Hugo Chavez envisioned.”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, during a meeting with Maduro on February 21, acknowledged Caracas’s interest in joining BRICS. He added that Russia, as the current chair of the organisation, would support this initiative. Russia assumed the one-year rotating chairmanship of BRICS on January 1, 2024.
