Vladimir Putin said the 2024 Brics summit would be held in the Russian city of Kazan, as China’s Xi Jinping urged the leaders of the emerging-markets bloc meeting at this year’s event in Johannesburg to speed up the pace of expansion.
Russia’s president spoke via video link on Wednesday after skipping the summit following the International Criminal Court’s war crimes charges against him in March, telling the gathering he would seek to strengthen the bloc’s role and authority under his chairmanship.
Russia holding the Brics summit next year will be a boost for Moscow’s attempts to show that it has not been isolated over Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year, especially among countries of the Global South.
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