“At current and most certainly in the foreseeable future, Kazakhstan will chorus from submitting an utility to BRICS,” the Kazakh president’s spokesperson, Berik Uali, mentioned in an interview with native information on Wednesday.
Uali added that President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has repeatedly spoken out in favor of the United Nations as a “common and irreplaceable worldwide group,” and mentioned that the U.N. Safety Council must be reformed to have in mind pursuits of regional powers.
Kazakhstan’s choice represents a blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who’s attempting to model BRICS as an alliance of “the worldwide majority” as a part of Moscow’s efforts to problem a dominant West and problem sanctions associated to Russia’s struggle on Ukraine.
Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov mentioned that BRICS doesn’t substitute the U.N., quite the opposite, “it enhances, reasonably than contradicting, its worldwide nature.”
“Kazakhstan is our pal, our strategic associate, our ally. We worth our relationships. That is the very first thing. Subsequently, in fact, Kazakhstan itself makes choices on the format of its participation in sure organizations,” mentioned Peskov.
The tensions come forward of the BRICS summit scheduled to happen from Oct. 22-24 within the Russian metropolis of Kazan, the place Tokayev will take part as a visitor in an prolonged assembly subsequent Thursday.
