{"id":106708,"date":"2025-01-01T13:03:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T13:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/01\/uganda-8-other-countries-officially-join-brics\/"},"modified":"2025-01-01T13:03:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T13:03:25","slug":"uganda-8-other-countries-officially-join-brics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/uganda-8-other-countries-officially-join-brics\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda, 8 other countries officially join BRICS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Thailand, Uganda, and Uzbekistan have\u00a0 from January 1, 2025 officially become\u00a0 BRICS partner states.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With this expansion, BRICS and its partners will now represent 41 per cent of the global economy<\/p>\n<p>In a press briefing on Monday, Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said the countries have reiterated their willingness to receive such a status and that invitations to become partners have been sent to four other countries.<\/p>\n<p>The invitation for partnership was extended during the October 2024 summit in Kazan, Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Partner countries will engage in high-level meetings, including trade forums, security discussions, and ministerial events. They will also be able to make their own proposals, but will not take part in agreeing documents and voting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">Founded in 2009, BRICS originated as a bloc of emerging economies: Brazil, Russia, India, and China.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">South Africa joined in 2011, followed by Ethiopia, Egypt, Iran, and the UAE in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/kbc.co.ke\/uganda-8-other-countries-officially-join-brics\/\">Uganda, 8 other countries officially join BRICS<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Thailand, Uganda, and Uzbekistan have\u00a0 from January 1, 2025 officially become\u00a0 BRICS partner states. With this expansion, BRICS and its partners will now represent 41 per cent of the global economy In a press briefing on Monday, Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said the countries have reiterated their willingness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}