Egypt Has Russia's Support for Joining the BRICS

“Egypt has submitted its application to join the BRICS group because one of the initiatives that BRICS is currently pursuing is to shift trade to alternative currencies, be it national currencies or a new common currency. Egypt is very much interested in that,” Russian Ambassador to Cairo Georgy Borisenko said in an interview with TASS on June 14. Later, he confirmed that Moscow supported Egypt’s application to join BRICS.