Russia May Establish BRICS Secretariat – Iranian Foreign Ministry

Russia may establish a BRICS secretariat, Mahdi Safari, Iran's deputy foreign minister for economic diplomacy, told Sputnik , citing Moscow's experience in managing international organizations. “Russia a country with vast experience in international and regional organizations in my opinion could establish a new body in BRICS which will eventually evolve into secretariat”, Mahdi Safari says.

According to the Iranian diplomat, currently each country holding the presidency of BRICS collects and stores information about the bloc's activities, but does not transfer this data to the succeeding nation. Safari stressed that Iran wants "this secretariat to be established as soon as possible.

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Iran Not Seeking to Join WTO, as It Benefits from Membership in Other Regional Blocs Iran is not seeking to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) as soon as possible because its membership in other leading regional organizations is in sum equal to WTO membership, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Diplomacy also told Sputnik .

"We are a [WTO] observer country, but with membership in BRICS, the SCO [Shanghai Cooperation Organization], EAEU [Eurasian Economic Union], ECO [Economic Cooperation Organization] — all of that combined equals the WTO itself! Now, we do not see the need for WTO membership ... [Being a member of] these organizations, we have automatically almost become a member of the WTO at the regional level and are enjoying our benefits.

This is a winning position for all parties," Safari says. Tehran's membership in the aforementioned groups meets almost all the country's needs at the regional and global levels, the diplomat noted, adding, however, that if Iran was offered membership in the WTO, it would welcome such a step and agree to join the organization.

At the same time, the diplomat pointed out that free trade with the EAEU would have a great impact on Iran Russia trade and create prospects for successful cooperation in finance, transit, energy, technologies and knowledge intensive projects. { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/img/07e7/0c/11/1115645052_0:0:3073:1230_640x0_80_0_0_921ff9345d037f4c01ebdce6e3b509c8.jpg", "thumbnail": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/img/07e7/0c/11/1115645052_0:0:3073:1730_640x0_80_0_0_ce6213236854b1a7f282d6c0f70ca23a.jpg", "image": "https://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/img/07e7/0c/11/1115645052_0:0:3073:1730_640x0_80_0_0_ce6213236854b1a7f282d6c0f70ca23a.jpg" }, { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/img/07e7/0c/11/1115645052_0:0:2729:2047_640x0_80_0_0_42aa59cbc63c01fdf23cced8cbd74a54.jpg", "image": "https://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/img/07e7/0c/11/1115645052_0:0:2729:2047_640x0_80_0_0_42aa59cbc63c01fdf23cced8cbd74a54.jpg" }, { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/img/07e7/0c/11/1115645052_0:0:2047:2047_640x0_80_0_0_332d52063a52a06379b6fa2b3c782f6d.jpg", "image": "https://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/img/07e7/0c/11/1115645052_0:0:2047:2047_640x0_80_0_0_332d52063a52a06379b6fa2b3c782f6d.jpg" } ], "width": 640, "height": 256 } { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/img/07e7/0c/11/1115645052_0:0:3073:1230_1280x0_80_0_0_e27069b28ec410d0e31c9921bee62591.jpg", "thumbnail": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/img/07e7/0c/11/1115645052_0:0:3073:1730_1280x0_80_0_0_1f2765e7a64434c00ae74d93c9c55a94.jpg", "image": "https://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/img/07e7/0c/11/1115645052_0:0:3073:1730_1280x0_80_0_0_1f2765e7a64434c00ae74d93c9c55a94.jpg" }, { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/img/07e7/0c/11/1115645052_0:0:2729:2047_1280x0_80_0_0_ed3cc3555a8a2d3016bba67e27d25043.jpg", "image": "https://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/img/07e7/0c/11/1115645052_0:0:2729:2047_1280x0_80_0_0_ed3cc3555a8a2d3016bba67e27d25043.jpg" }, { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/img/07e7/0c/11/1115645052_0:0:2047:2047_1280x0_80_0_0_6d8d522baec64bbb9bc333e849905c52.jpg", "image": "https://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/img/07e7/0c/11/1115645052_0:0:2047:2047_1280x0_80_0_0_6d8d522baec64bbb9bc333e849905c52.jpg" } ], "width": 1280, "height": 512 } { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/img/07e7/0c/11/1115645052_0:0:3073:1230_1920x0_80_0_0_7b4d86dd1be25e924cb2ab60ef2c0cbe.jpg", "thumbnail": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/img/07e7/0c/11/1115645052_0:0:3073:1730_1920x0_80_0_0_584ed147e9f8f16416c72a6adb218075.jpg", "image": "https://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/img/07e7/0c/11/1115645052_0:0:3073:1730_1920x0_80_0_0_584ed147e9f8f16416c72a6adb218075.jpg" }, { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/img/07e7/0c/11/1115645052_0:0:2729:2047_1920x0_80_0_0_a0b2ca9710e66f63ad368b8c2ee867f1.jpg", "image": "https://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/img/07e7/0c/11/1115645052_0:0:2729:2047_1920x0_80_0_0_a0b2ca9710e66f63ad368b8c2ee867f1.jpg" }, { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/img/07e7/0c/11/1115645052_0:0:2047:2047_1920x0_80_0_0_b94769d879cd384afda261cb2f299d67.jpg", "image": "https://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/img/07e7/0c/11/1115645052_0:0:2047:2047_1920x0_80_0_0_b94769d879cd384afda261cb2f299d67.jpg" } ], "width": 1920, "height": 768 } World Putin Starts 2024 Explaining His View of Russia's BRICS Chairmanship 1 January, 11:56 GMT Earlier, experts told Sputnik why BRICS is so appealing to the nations of the Global South, citing inclusiveness as a contrast to the zero sum geopolitical machinations of Western countries..