Argentina Declines To Join BRICS

Argentina’s incoming Foreign Minister Diana Mondino says the country will not join the BRICS grouping of developing nations in a post on social media X.

“If the BRICS are already our primary trading partners, what’s the difference,?” she said.

Meanwhile, Mondino’s remarks follow President Milei’s foreign policy vision that Argentina should strongly align its interests to those of the US.

While Milei’s team has walked back some of the aggressive rhetoric against China and Brazil that the candidate showed during the campaign, not joining the BRICS group confirms a significant policy change that moves Argentina away from efforts to strengthen emerging countries’ blocks.

Report says Argentina was among six countries invited to become new members of the BRICS at a summit held in South Africa in August, part of the grouping’s push to reshuffle a Western-dominated world order it sees as outdated.

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