of africa and the global south heads of regional institutions distinguished ministers deputy president of south africa in full style i am honored to welcome all of you to south africa outreach dialogues plus today's world of 1955 when asia and africa demanded a greater role for developing countries in world affairs there was a call at the conference for the recognition of all nations great and small. we are still we share this vision of a just and equitable world. we strive to avoid polarization and divisions. we want a world without borders between gray south east and west. we still aspire to a world where we work together. in the spirit of mutual respect at the 15th brix summit and through this dialogue we must support the spirit of banduna the spirit of friendship and cooperation in south africa there is a special word that we use for friendship and cooperation is the word bundu. it is a practice based on the understanding that our success, our prosperity depends on the success prosperity and welfare of others. we often say i am because you are and this is the recognition and respect with which we want to treat each other. we believe that brix and the brix partnership is a catalys

outreach is a format, where is the chairman? now it is south africa that is being invited by its neighbors in the region. there is also brix plus a wider dialoguever the world are already participating in johannesburg, in general, the complexity has arrived. and almost 60 countries are ready to take part in the brix as shown by the summit association, indeed not intentionally limited to its current borders and open to new entrants gdp brix will be 37% of the world's purchasing power parity per share. brix will account for 46% of the world's population, we welcome new members to the organization and have already drawn up criteria for the further expansion of our association, and criteria for new members. briks told sergey lavrov the head of the russian foreign ministry led our delegation at the summit criteria that and procedures that were approved for countries partners, and they were taken into account, of course, but first of all, the weight of the authority of the significance of one side or another of the applicant for membership was taken into account. and, of course, its position in the international arena, because everyone is in favor of