Yuri Ushakov, foreign policy aide to Putin, stated that 36 countries have confirmed their participation, with over 20 planning to send their heads of state, the Associated Press reported. The 2024 summit coincides with the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank, the two Bretton-Woods institutions that BRICS positions itself as an alternative to.

At present, the world is going through changes unseen in a hundred years, the international situation is intertwined with chaos. But I firmly believe that the friendship between China and Russia will continue for generations,