Dilma Rouseff Highlights the Importance of Russia as Part of BRICS

Rouseff met with the Russian president in the context of the XXVII International Economic Forum (SPIEF-2024).

On Thursday, during a meeting with Vladimir Putin, the president of the New Development Bank (NDB), Dilma Rouseff called Moscow’s contribution to the economic fund of the BRICS bloc “strategic and fundamental”.

Rouseff met with the Russian president in the context of the XXVII International Economic Forum (SPIEF-2024). The former Brazilian president admitted to being very honored and happy to attend the event.

The president of the NBD assured that this is “a very important moment”, since Russia currently chairs the BRICS and recalled that Moscow is “one of the founding partners of the bank and therefore has a great role in the issue concerning developing countries”.

In this sense, he pointed out that the NDB aims to “make up for the absence of necessary investments,” said Rouseff.

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At a meeting with Russian President Putin, Rousseff said:

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“We are a different bank. Made by and for the countries of the Global South and we have some important characteristics: we do not impose conditionality on our members,” he said.

The bank was created in 2015 by the member countries of the bloc with the objective of financing important infrastructure projects in developing economies.