EGN NEWS DESK
“At current and almost certainly in the foreseeable future, Kazakhstan will chorus from submitting an software to BRICS,” the Kazakh president’s spokesperson, Berik Uali, mentioned in an interview with native information on Wednesday.
Uali added that President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has repeatedly spoken out in favor of the United Nations as a “common and irreplaceable worldwide group,” and mentioned that the U.N. Security Council needs to be reformed to have in mind pursuits of regional powers.
Kazakhstan’s resolution represents a blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who’s attempting to model BRICS as an alliance of “the worldwide majority” as a part of Moscow’s efforts to problem a dominant West and problem sanctions associated to Russia’s warfare on Ukraine.
Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov mentioned that BRICS doesn’t change the U.N., quite the opposite, “it enhances, slightly than contradicting, its worldwide nature.”
“Kazakhstan is our good friend, our strategic companion, our ally. We worth our relationships. This is the very first thing. Therefore, after all, Kazakhstan itself makes selections on the format of its participation in sure organizations,” mentioned Peskov.
The tensions come forward of the BRICS summit scheduled to happen from Oct. 22-24 within the Russian metropolis of Kazan, the place Tokayev will take part as a visitor in an prolonged assembly subsequent Thursday.
