ALGIERS- President of the Republic Abdelmadjid Tebboune affirmed that Algeria meets, to a large extent, the conditions that enable it to join the BRICS.
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has suggested that his country, Africa’s largest natural gas exporter, could join the BRICS economic group that includes Russia and China.
The BRICS group also includes the major emerging economies of Brazil, India and South Africa.
“The BRICS interest us” as an alternative to traditional power centres, President Tebboune said in a televised interview late Sunday. “They constitute an economic and political force.”
He underlined that there was no need to “get ahead of things” but promised “good news”.
The president added that his North African country meets “a good part” of the economic criteria for joining the bloc.
BRICS members currently account for nearly a quarter of the world’s gross domestic product.
