Brazil will host the 'BRICS Summit 2025' in Rio de Janeiro in July.

International

In February 2025, Brazil announced that the next 'BRICS Summit 2025' will be held in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) on July 6-7, 2025. Throughout 2025, Brazil will lead the group of developing nations and focus on global governance reforms and strengthening cooperation among countries of the Global South. .


      - BRICS is an intergovernmental organization that was initially formed in 2009 by Brazil, Russia, India, and China.

      - South Africa joined in 2010, expanding the group. In 2024, BRICS expanded again by adding Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Saudi Arabia was also invited to join.

     

Main Point :-   (i) Countries like Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Malaysia have applied for membership

      (ii) At the 2024 summit in Kazan (Russia), Indonesia became the 11th member, while Nigeria was named a "partner country".


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