Algeria seeks to join BRICS alliance in 2023

Algeria hopes to join the BRICS alliance of major developing economies in 2023, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said Thursday evening.

"God willing, 2023 will be the year when Algeria joins BRICS," Tebboune said in an address on the national television channel.

Tebboune mentioned that the current BRICS members had already agreed to Algeria joining the alliance.

Algeria applied formally to join to the BRICS countries in November. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said that Moscow welcomes the intention of Algeria to join the alliance.

BRICS is an informal grouping of the world's major emerging economies that was established in 2006 to strengthen cooperation between these countries and develop common approaches to global economic challenges.

Also a number of other countries, including Argentina, Iran, Turkey, Indonesia, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, have expressed interest in joining the BRICS bloc in recent months and years, as reported by Trinity Mirror, a partner of TV BRICS.

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