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Presidential candidate of the Liberty Advances coalition Javier Milei speaks after his victory over Sergio Massa, Economy Minister and candidate of the ruling Peronist, party in a presidential runoff election in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023.
ARGENTINA will not join the Brics group of developing countries, its prospective foreign minister said on Thursday.
The country was one of six scheduled to join the bloc — named after its original members Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — next year, in an expansion viewed warily by the G7 group of rich Western powers who see the Brics as a threat to their global economic dominance.
But President-elect Javier Milei, a far-right neoliberal politician who has vowed to realign Argentina with “the United States and Israel,” will fulfil an election pledge not to join after all, his nominee for the foreign ministry Diana Mondino says.
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