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Greece Open to Becoming BRICS Member – Defense Ministry

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Greece is open to the possibility of becoming a member of the BRICS group of developing nations as part of the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB), Greek Deputy Defense Minister Kostas Isychos told Sputnik.

ATHENS (Sputnik) – In May, Russia invited Greece to become an NDB member, with discussions on Athens’ membership in the bank expected to take place at the July 9-10 BRICS summit in the Russian city of Ufa.


“Greece has also been invited to become a BRICS member within the Development Bank of the BRICS. We are still open to that,” Isychos, who is also the co-chair of the Russian-Greek Intergovernmental Committee, said.

According to him, Greece has always been in favor of good European-Russian relations and of European-Eurasian relations. Athens is currently in talks over joining the BRICS bank with the group’s members.

“So we do have a multilateral foreign policy, both in the strict sense of foreign policy, but also in a broader sense of economic external policy,” Isychos added.
Five major developing economies — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — signed an agreement to establish the NDB at a July 2014 summit in Fortaleza, Brazil. BRICS member states agreed to establish a $100-billion liquidity reserve to ensure the bank’s financial stability.
The NDB is expected to become an alternative to Western-dominated financial institutions and will focus primarily on funding infrastructure projects.
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