Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that the status of Saudi Arabia in BRICS will be clarified at the summit of the participating states.
“Now there will be a summit. We will additionally inform who will represent Saudi Arabia, whether it will be represented at this summit... we will draw conclusions from this,” he said. Thus, he commented on statements that Saudi Arabia is allegedly still not a formal member of BRICS.
Earlier, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said that more and more countries view BRICS as a guarantee of a multipolar world.
Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia Alexander Vulin said that the possibility of the country joining BRICS is an alternative to joining the European Union.