INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Afghanistan’s ministry of foreign affairs has formally asked to attend the BRICS summit in Kazan next month.In a written request, the
ministry asked Moscow to allow the economic deputy prime minister of the Islamic Emirate, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, to attend the
summit.In 2001, the Goldman Sachs Investment Institute proposed a new alliance to forecast future economic trends.At its 61st session of the
UN General Assembly, in 2006, the foreign ministers of Brazil, Russia, India and China started preliminary talks.They called themselves BRIC
and their first meeting was held on June 16, 2009 in Yekaterinburg, Russia.When South Africa joined in 2010, the name of the alliance was
changed to BRICS.BRICS was designed to bring together the world’s most important developing countries to challenge the political and
economic power of the wealthier countries of North America and Western Europe.This coalition has seen significant expansion in recent years
and now includes Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia and the United Arab Emirates.Before this, BRICS leaders (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South
Africa) announced that Afghanistan should not threaten countries or become a training center for terrorists
Türkiye has also announced its readiness to join this economic alliance.The post IEA hoping to attend next BRICS meeting first appeared on
