Current BRICS format works effectively, does not need changes - Lavrov

MOSCOW, July 2. /TASS/. The format of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) should not be bureaucratized with creating an organization with membership cards and headquarters, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday at a BRICS Youth Forum. Lavrov noted the common position of BRICS countries on most international problems and stressed that "everyone [in BRICS] proceeds from the real state of affairs and strengthens agreement on those issues that [the members] really agree on." "I think this is the best way for our association’s future development," the foreign minister noted. "To announce creation of an organization with membership cards and headquarters is to bureaucratize the cooperation process with which everyone is content for now," he added. "We need organizational beginnings in order to communicate more comfortably, to prepared documents between the capitals," Lavrov said. "That is why we are setting up a virtual secretariat - on the same principle as an electronic university. It will be an electronic structure, but it will secure communication between head offices in our countries," he added. Read more