Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo - October 18, 2024

BRICS brings a new development model for developing countries and offers a new form of development and cooperation between states, said Denis Christel Sassou Nguesso, minister of International Cooperation and Promotion of Public-Private Partnership of the Republic of the Congo, on Friday.

The BRICS comprises Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, with the latter five becoming its members in January this year.

Many countries have been invited to the Kazan summit, including the president of the Republic of the Congo, said Nguesso.

He said that various countries "see the BRICS initiative as a new diversification of partnership," and they will take this summit as an opportunity to assess if the BRICS mechanism can bring differences to them.

Once the assessment is made, each country will decide for itself whether or not to join, he said.

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FILE: Brazzaville, Republic of Congo - 2018
1. City view;
Brazzaville, Republic of Congo - Oct 18, 2024
2. Interview in progress;
3. SOUNDBITE (French) Denis Christel Sassou Nguesso, Minister of International Cooperation and Promotion of Public-Private Partnership, Republic of the Congo:
"In the BRICS concept as we see today, it is first of all a concept which aims to bring a certain number of developing countries, trying to counterbalance, if I may say, the Western model, the European model and the North American model, through new mechanisms for state development. Today, many countries have already joined. In 2024, for example, we have seen the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Iran and Ethiopia [joined].";
Kazan, Russia - Recent
4. Various of banners of BRICS Summit 2024;
Brazzaville, Republic of Congo - Oct 18, 2024
5. SOUNDBITE (French) Denis Christel Sassou Nguesso, Minister of International Cooperation and Promotion of Public-Private Partnership, Republic of the Congo:
"The BRICS mechanism, in fact, aims to counterbalance a very old model, which has always been based on Western development mechanisms. And I think that the BRICS' desire today is to bring about a different model. So today, it's up to the BRICS to present the model as it intends to make it available to states, in order to inspire a new form of development and cooperation between states. And it is precisely the initiative of summits such as the one in Kazan, or even the last one held in South Africa, that states will have the very quintessence of what this development mechanism represents. And it's on the basis of this precise assessment that states will be able to decide: What kind of development do they have with the BRICS? What do they want to achieve? And then we'll decide.";
Kazan, Russia - Recent
6. Various of banners of BRICS Summit 2024, traffic, pedestrians;
7. Building of Kazan Kremlin.

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