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BRICS Bank Head Says Intends to Boost Number of Transactions in National Currencies

© Sputnik . Pavel Bednyakov / Go to the mediabankPresident of the BRICS New Development Bank Dilma Rousseff speaks at the plenary session of the 2nd Russia-Africa Summit and Forum at the Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Center.
President of the BRICS New Development Bank Dilma Rousseff speaks at the plenary session of the 2nd Russia-Africa Summit and Forum at the Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Center. - Sputnik Africa, 1920, 27.07.2023
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ST. PETERSBURG (Sputnik) - BRICS’ New Development Bank (NDB) is interested in increasing the use of national currencies in settlements to strengthen the markets of the bank's member states, NDB President Dilma Vana Rousseff said on Thursday.
"We would like to increase the number of operations in national currencies to strengthen the markets of the New Development Bank's member states," she said at a plenary session of the Russia-Africa Summit in St. Petersburg, adding that such an increase is one of the bank's main priorities.
Developing countries are currently the most vulnerable to unilateral protectionist policies, Rousseff said.
"The use of sanctions for political purposes or attempts to extend the jurisdiction of a country outside its territory does not solve a single problem, but rather exacerbates the existing ones," the bank president said.
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