Bolivian Foreign Minister Selinda Sosa Lunda said at a press conference following a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that her country hopes to join BRICS soon.
“We, Bolivia and our president, have expressed interest and desire to be part of BRICS, so we have been holding meetings with all BRICS members such as Brazil, South Africa and others. We have received support and interest for Bolivia to become part of BRICS and we hope to join the association soon” – said Celinda Sosa Lunda.
For his part, Sergei Lavrov said that Russia supports Bolivia’s aspirations to join BRICS.
“Russia supports these aspirations of Bolivia. We, as chairman this year, are interested in ensuring that as many countries as possible that want to get closer to BRICS, either to become members or to establish stable, permanent partnerships, receive a concrete positive response,” the Russian foreign minister said (quoted by TASS).
According to the Russian Foreign Minister, the meeting of the BRICS foreign ministers, which will be held in June in Nizhny Novgorod, will raise the issue of smooth integration of the new participants, as well as the definition of a common line for further expansion of the association.
Earlier, Prime Minister of Belarus Roman Golovchenko said that Minsk was interested in developing cooperation with the SCO and BRICS. According to him, the republic is able to offer these associations promising projects.