{"id":7049,"date":"2026-11-02T11:40:01","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T11:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/?p=7049"},"modified":"2026-11-02T11:40:01","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T11:40:01","slug":"russia-strongly-supports-ghanas-application-to-join-brics-as-a-partner-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/russia-strongly-supports-ghanas-application-to-join-brics-as-a-partner-country\/","title":{"rendered":"RUSSIA STRONGLY SUPPORTS GHANA\u2019S APPLICATION TO JOIN BRICS AS A PARTNER COUNTRY."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Foreign Minister, His Excellency Sergey Lavrov has announced at a breakfast meeting with African Foreign Ministers on 28<sup>th<\/sup> October, 2026 that Russia strongly supports Ghana\u2019s application to join BRICS as a partner country.<\/p>\n<p>His Excellency Sergey Lavrov further pledged to rally all founding BRICS members to ensure consensus support for Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The Foreign Minister, Honourable Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, who is in Russia to join His Excellency President John Dramani Mahama at the Russia-Africa Summit, conveyed Ghana\u2019s deep appreciation to his revered Russian colleague and great friend.<\/p>\n<p>African Foreign Ministers have been holding strategic meetings with the Russian Foreign Minister at the ongoing Russia-Africa Summit.<\/p>\n<p>The Mahama Administration will continue to uphold Ghana\u2019s longstanding foreign policy of non-alignment and friends of all, enemies to none, as Ghana pursues diversified development options in its national interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Foreign Minister, His Excellency Sergey Lavrov has announced at a breakfast meeting with African Foreign Ministers on 28th October, 2026 that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7051,"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7049\/revisions\/7051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}