BRICS Summit Hails Multipolarity, Calls for Global Reforms

The traditional "family photo" of national leaders marking the summit for the first time included the new BRICS member countries. Image: Maxim Shipenkov / Pool / AFP.

The BRICS+ group committed itself to global financial reform and opposing trade barriers at its leaders’ summit in Kazan, Russia.

The summit, the largest diplomatic forum in Russia since the invasion of Ukraine, gathered more than twenty leaders in what is increasingly framed as an anti-Western grouping. Also in attendance is UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, much to the chagrin of Ukraine.

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