Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the BRICS leaders’ meeting and visit South Africa on August 21-24
This is what the Chinese Foreign Ministry stated in a statement on Friday, writes Reuters.
Leaders from the five BRICS nations of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa meet in Johannesburg next week from August 22, with the states making up a quarter of the global economy in a geopolitical force that could challenge for dominance of the West in world affairs.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who faces an international arrest warrant for alleged war crimes in Ukraine, will attend virtually.