BRICS Ministers Discuss Global Rebalancing, Expansion, and Sanction Avoidance.

The foreign ministers of the Brics group of nations have called for a rebalancing of the global order away from Western nations, with South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor saying the group's vision was to provide global leadership in a world fractured by geopolitical tension, inequality and global insecurity. The Brics is seen by some as an alternative to the G7 group of developed nations, which held its annual summit in the Japanese city of Hiroshima last month, and was also attended by the leaders of Brazil and India. The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin over allegations of war crimes in Ukraine, and South Africa would be obliged to arrest him if he attends a Brics summit scheduled for Johannesburg in August.