Move aimed at accelerating groups push to reshuffle outdated world order . Entry of oil powers highlights drift away from US orbit and ambition to become global heavyweights in their own right . Expansion adds economic heft to BRICS whose current members are China the worlds second largest economy as well as Brazil Russia India and South Africa .
But longstanding tensions could linger between members who want to forge the grouping into a counterweight to the West notably China and Russia and those that continue to nurture close ties to the United States and Europe . The six new candidates will formally become members on Jan South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said when he named the countries during a threeday leaders summit he is hosting in Johannesburg .
The expansion of BRICS was originally an acronym coined by Goldman Sachs chief economist Jim ONeill in the bloc was founded as an informal fournation club in and added South Africa a year later in its only previous expansion in its last previous expansion.
The six countries will officially become members of the BRICS bloc was added a year earlier this year in their only previous addition to their membership. South African president Cyril Rakhakhapapuja . The entry of Saudi Arabias foreign minister told Al Arabiya TV that the kingdom appreciated the invitation by BRICS to join the group and would study the details before the proposed January joining date and take the appropriate decision.
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