Mauro Vieira

Lula voices support for more countries joining BRICS

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has said that he supports more countries joining the BRICS group of large developing nations, which currently includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

The group will hold a summit in Johannesburg from Aug. 22 to 24. The meeting will have in hand a list of others desiring to join ther group.

The end of the war in Ukraine? Lavrov: "Russia is interested... as soon as possible"

"It is clear that we are interested in ending the Ukrainian conflict as soon as possible. We have several times explained in detail the reasons for everything that is happening and the goals. We have explained in detail, and not once, the reasons for what is happening and those goals that we have in this regard," Lavrov said after a meeting with Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira.