❗️LIVE NOW: BRICS summit in South Africa: Day 3

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❗️'Isolation' as an American weapon has been defeated forever, Russia’s MFA spokeswoman Zakharova says

“The press conference of the BRICS leaders to announce the results of the summit will start any minute now. The results are brilliant,” Maria Zakharova said.

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⚡️ BRICS has adopted Johannesburg declaration II, South African President Says

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⚡️ BRICS expanded: Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE join the club

These countries will become full bloc members starting January 1, 2024.

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❗️Vladimir Putin at BRICS:

▪️Negotiation of the BRICS final declaration was not easy, including on the issue of expansion

▪️The president of South Africa showed diplomatic skill when discussing issues of expanding the bloc

▪️A single settlement currency is a very complicated issue, but we will move in this direction

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🎉 Historic moment: Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE join BRICS

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🇮🇳 PM Modi welcomes #BRICS expansion

🗯 "India has always believed the inclusion of new members will contribute further to BRICS as an organization and give our new efforts a fresh dynamic."

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🗺 Today’s map of BRICS countries now looks like this: current members of the club are highlighted in blue, while new members are highlighted in orange

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❗️Key takeaways from the XV BRICS Summit declaration:

▪️The BRICS leaders support a comprehensive reform of the UN, including its Security Council, with a view to making it more democratic, representative, effective and efficient

▪️The representation of developing countries in the UN Council should be increased

▪️BRICS stress the importance of encouraging the use of local currencies in international trade and financial transactions between BRICS as well as their trading partners

▪️Brazil, India, China and South Africa extend their full support to Russia for its BRICS Chairship in 2024 and the holding of the XVI BRICS Summit in the city of Kazan, Russia

▪️The bloc calls for the need to make progress towards the achievement of a fair and market-oriented agricultural trading system, ending hunger, achieving food security and improved nutrition

▪️The leaders tasked Foreign Ministers to further develop the BRICS partner country model and a list of prospective partner countries and report by the next Summit

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❗️Vladimir Putin’s remarks at BRICS summit:

▪️BRICS not competing with anyone and not opposing itself to anyone

▪️The bloc has opponents — countries of 'golden billion' — trying to replace system of international law based on their own selfish rules

▪️BRICS stands for world order that would be truly balanced and take into account interests of many countries, preserving diversity of peoples

▪️Russia generally interested in strengthening ties with African continent, will implement projects in various fields

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📹 Vladimir Putin speaks about BRICS expansion at briefing

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🇯🇵 Protesters rally outside the Fukushima nuclear plant's operator TEPCO as Japan starts releasing wastewater into the Pacific Ocean

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❗️Russian Armed Forces hit Ukrainian military HQ in precision nighttime strike: goal achieved, object hit, MoD says

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❗️LIVE HAS ENDED: Sergey Lavrov talks to media at BRICS Summit in South Africa

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📸 Say cheese! World leaders pose for ‘family photo’ at BRICS summit

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Fun’s over! Lavrov reveals that all BRICS members favor keeping the BRICS brand name after enlarging the club.

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🇳🇴 Norway to provide F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine

The report comes from Norwegian broadcaster TV2, which claims several separate sources have confirmed the decision by the government.

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🇷🇺 Key points of Sergey Lavrov’s press conference at BRICS Summit:

▪️BRICS differs from the G7 in its approach to work, because Washington alone determines the entire strategy there, and others already complement it, here we reach consensus, and do not follow the commands of the head

▪️Consensus agreements are always more effective and durable.

▪️Before the opening of the summit, the Western media treated it like the opening of an "economic club." Well, there is some truth in this, we are able to influence the economy and logistics of the whole world. But to call us that is still to belittle the influence of our union.

▪️The BRICS countries supported the idea of the South African leader to create a commission for space exploration.

▪️The new world centers are no longer ready to live at the behest of the West, which is unable to abandon its colonial habits.

▪️Russia does not see any signs that the West is ready to fulfill its obligations so that we can return to the "grain deal" — there are only words so far.

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📹 Prigozhin jet crash: What we know so far

Footage from the crash site and the first eyewitness testimonies in this Sputnik explainer.

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