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Belarus became a BRICS partner country

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Olha Bereziuk
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Belarus has officially become a BRICS partner country, according to the website of the countryʼs Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The agency reported that on November 5, the self-proclaimed president of the country Aleksandr Lukashenko signed a letter to Vladimir Putin about his readiness to join BRICS as a partner.

The official response to the written invitation is a mandatory element of the procedure for obtaining partner status agreed by the member states, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs emphasized. It is from this moment that the country is officially considered a BRICS partner.

The status of a partner country, among other things, involves participation on a permanent basis in special sessions of summits and meetings of BRICS foreign ministers. It is also possible to invite partners to other ministerial-level events, in particular on the subject of trade, meetings of national security representatives and a forum of parliamentarians. Partners can join the BRICS outcome documents.

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