[UPDATE-Aug 24-13:00Z – Final Declaration] – BRICS Summit to Begin in South Africa

  Day #2  BRICS leaders adopt document setting parameters for expansion, says top South African diplomat The BRICS leaders have adopted a document enshrining guidelines and principles of the association’s expansion, South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor said. “We have agreed on the matter of expansion. We have a document that we’ve adopted which sets out guidelines and principles, processes for considering countries that wish to become members of BRICS. <…> That’s very positive,” the top diplomat said on the Ubuntu Radio. Since January, the BRICS Sherpas have been working on the concept of expansion and the principles of…