BRICS to suspend admitting new members for a while: Lavrov
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BRICS nations have decided to "take a pause’ in terms of admitting new members, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
"By the overwhelming majority, the ten nations decided to ‘take a pause’ with new members to ‘take in’ the new members who have doubled the association," he said at a meeting with the Speaker of Belarus’ Council of the Republic, or upper house of parliament, Natalia Kochanova.
"At the same time, we are working of categories of partner countries as stages ahead of a full-fledged membership. We will support our Belarusian friends as a number of other like-minded nations," Lavrov, who is on an official visit to Minsk, said.