Sputnik reports that President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said at a May 6 meeting with major Algerian media representatives: “The BRICS organization will help us [in development] more than other international financial organizations have helped us to date.” Referring to the BRICS New Development Bank, under the new leadership of Brazil’s former President Dilma Rousseff, Tebboune added: “BRICS will finance our projects, we will join their organization and unite politically.”