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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Gerald Imray

China, Russia and other emerging economies turn to main summit agenda in South Africa

Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service

Leaders of some of the developing world's most important economies turned Wednesday to the main business of their summit in South Africa, a day after a speech by Russian President Vladimir Putin gave the gathering an anti-Western tinge that officials had been hoping to avoid.

The BRICS group of emerging economies made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are debating whether to expand their bloc and allow in new members more than a decade after it came into existence.

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