Putin invites Pashinyan to BRICS summit in Kazan
Russian President Vladimir Putin invited Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to a summit of the BRICS group to be held in Kazan on October 22-24.
“Nikol Vovaevich, I am looking forward to meeting you at the BRICS summit in Kazan. I hope it will be both useful and interesting,” Putin told Pashinyan at a Kremlin meeting on the sidelines of the CIS summit in Moscow on Tuesday.
“Thank you very much,” Pashinian replied.
BRICS is an intergovernmental organization comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates. Originally identified to highlight investment opportunities, the grouping evolved into an actual geopolitical bloc, with their governments meeting annually at formal summits and coordinating multilateral policies since 2009.