Ghana Seeks a Seat at the BRICS Table
On 28 October, on the sidelines of the Russia-Africa Summit in Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told a breakfast meeting of African foreign ministers that Russia strongly supports Ghana’s application to become a BRICS partner country, and that he would engage the bloc’s founding members to build consensus in its favour. Ghana’s Foreign Minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, shared the news publicly.