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2025-07-05 International-UN-NGOs
Brazil launches major security operation ahead of BRICS Summit
[AFRICANEWS] Brazil's Navy launched a major operation off the coast of Rio de Janeiro on Thursday ahead of the BRICS Summit June 6-7.

Approx. 2,000 marines and more than 100 naval, air, and marine assets are reinforcing security around the Museum of Modern Art, where state leaders - including representatives from South Africa, Egypt, and Æthiopia - will meet on Sunday.

''As of today, we will have vessels on the water 24 hours a day. These are ships and smaller vessels controlling the entire maritime space. In some places, specifically Marina da Gloria, it will be closed from July 4th,'' said Navy Captain Elinton Coutinho.

Growing tensions within the BRICS alliance cast a shadow over this year's Summit as both Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
will skip the meeting in Rio for the first time.

The theme of Brazil's BRICS presidency is 'Strengthening Global South Cooperation for More Inclusive and Sustainable Governance'.

Organizers will work to get the 11 member countries to issue a joint final declaration after foreign ministers failed to do so at the Summit in April for the first time in BRICS history.

The gridlock was the result of Egypt and Æthiopia refusing to support South Africa as a candidate for a seat at the UN Security Council.
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