INSIDE POLITICS REPORTER
MINISTER of International Relations, Naledi Pandor, has emphasized the potential for the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) mechanism to play a transformative role in global affairs.
Pandor outlined South Africa’s foreign policy priorities for the 2023/2024 financial year during a Budget Vote Speech delivered in Parliament on Wednesday.
As South Africa prepares to assume the chairmanship of BRICS in 2023, Pandor has expressed hope that the group’s leaders will take a stronger role in promoting peace in Ukraine and Russia.
She has also welcomed the efforts of Chinese President Xi Jinping and former Brazilian President Lula da Silva in this regard.
Pandor has also noted that BRICS has generated significant interest from other countries, and that the group’s Sherpas are working on ways to respond to this interest.
It is important, she emphasized, that any agreements reached by BRICS strengthen multilateralism, the United Nations,
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