Russia, as the future chair of BRICS, intends to promote the organization's role in addressing pressing issues on the global agenda, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday.
"In the upcoming 2024, Russia will have to perform a number of important foreign policy functions. We were the first to preside over the expanded BRICS association and we will do everything possible to help the new members of the association harmoniously integrate into the working regime of this organization. In general, we intend to do everything possible to enhance the role of the association in addressing topical issues on the global agenda, make efforts to strengthen comprehensive strategic partnership within the framework of BRICS, develop cooperation in economic, financial and other spheres," Putin said during the presentation of credentials ceremony in the Kremlin.
Russia will seriously prepare for the holding of the BRICS summit in Kazan in October 2024 in a broader format, the president added.