Trump Gives Saudi Arabia Cause To Pause Joining BRICS

2025-02-05 05:02:57

(MENAFN- Asia Times) Saudi Minister of Economy and Planning Faisal Al-Ibrahim told the World Economic Forum during last month's Davos Summit ,“We've been invited to the BRICS, similar to how we've been invited to many other multilateral platforms in the past historically. We assess many different aspects of it before a decision is made and right now, we are in the middle of that.”

Saudi Arabia has good reason to delay on formally joining BRICS.

It was posited here in January 2024 when the country first revealed that it hadn't yet accepted the group's official membership invitation, saying this“is due to Western perceptions about this association, Iran's involvement in the Red Sea Crisis, and Israeli-US pressure,” which still holds true.

Regarding the first, Saudi Arabia would arguably feel uncomfortable with its name and national brand being included in the plethora of agenda-driven promotional materials misportraying BRICS as an anti-Western alliance.

The Kingdom used to be solidly in the Western camp but has taken a page from India's book in recent years by multi-aligning between them and what Russia now calls the“World Majority .”

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