Turkey tends to march to its own drum in international affairs. Take the United Nations vote on Dec. 14, 2022, when the body’s General Assembly approved a resolution in favor of a New International Economic Order. Some 123 member states – largely the countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America –
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New area of cooperation begun among BRICS countries
First International Forum on Nuclear Medicine of the BRICS countries, has begun on June 20, 2024 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The forum has brought together more than 250 representatives of the BRICS countries including Ethiopia, China, Brazil, India, South Africa and others, and is organized by the Ministry of Health
What happens in the Arctic does not stay in the Arctic
While climate change is relentlessly progressing, threatening life on earth, world leaders continue to meet while planning for a future where this immense menace to human existence remains a minor item on the agenda. Recently, the BRICS countries held their 15th annual summit in Johannesburg. BRICS, an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India,
BRICS shows it’s little more than a meaningless acronym
The 15th summit of BRICS countries, which just concluded in South Africa, received unprecedented international attention. Some commentators even invoked the Bandung conference of 1955, where leaders of India, China, Indonesia, Egypt, and Yugoslavia launched the non-aligned movement. It seemed as though another generation of leaders, this time from Brazil,
Bangladesh did not request BRICS membership: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Tuesday said that Bangladesh didn't try to become member of BRICS right now rather it focused fully on involving with the New Development Bank, a multilateral development bank established by the BRICS states. "We didn't have any thinking that we would get membership of BRICS by joining
China, Russia, emerging economies turn to main agenda
Leaders of some of the developing world's most important economies turned Wednesday to the main business of their summit in South Africa, a day after a speech by Russian President Vladimir Putin gave the gathering an anti-Western tinge that officials had been hoping to avoid. The BRICS group of emerging economies
Bangladesh needs to do more homework for BRICS
In a bid to delve into the strategic shift in Bangladesh's foreign policy, a significant Policy Colloquium titled ‘Bangladesh’s Pivot Towards BRICS: Challenges and Interests’ was held at the Syndicate Hall of North South University (NSU), a press release said on Sunday. This event was organized by the South Asian
