Argentina aspires to strengthen the interests of the Global South, says foreign minister at BRICS meeting

The Argentine Foreign Minister, Santiago Cafiero, affirmed yesterday that the country aspires to strengthen the interests of the Global South, while participating as a guest at a meeting of foreign ministers of the BRICS countries taking place in Cape Town, the legislative capital of South Africa.

Cafiero, who participated virtually, affirmed in his speech that “global problems cannot be solved unilaterally”, according to a press release from the Foreign Ministry.

“Nor can they be addressed with generic recipes that do not distinguish the particular realities that the countries of the South are going through”, said the head of Argentine diplomacy.

Cafiero ratified that Argentina’s foreign policy “is based on principles such as the search for peace in the world, friendship among peoples, the recovery of human dignity, non-interference among States, territorial integrity”, and stressed that the South American country aspires to strengthen the interests of the global South.

The Argentine Foreign Minister warned that developing countries are the ones that must bear the worst effects of the current systemic crisis, derived in this case from the increase in the prices of food, fertilizers and energy, as well as from greater financial pressure and fiscal asphyxia.

“These circumstances seriously threaten to further widen the North-South gap between our nations,” Cafiero emphasized.

BRICS is the acronym for the emerging markets bloc that groups Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. South Africa assumed the presidency previously held by China on January 1, 2023.

This year’s BRICS summit will be held in Johannesburg under the theme “BRICS and Africa: Partnership for Accelerated Mutual Growth, Sustainable Development, and Inclusive Multilateralism”.

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