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“I’m sure the Western banking interests don’t look kindly on this and view it as a threat. We know from history that Western banksters will resort to force to “solve problems”. Could this be the real reason for the West’s anger towards Russia and China? We’ll see.”  Admin

The BRICS group of emerging powers met Wednesday with South American presidents as they justified the creation of a development bank seen as an alternative to Western-dominated global financial organizations.

The leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa held closed-door talks in Brasilia with counterparts from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and other Latin American nations.

The gathering follows a BRICS-only summit Monday in the seaside city of Fortaleza, where the five nations agreed to create the $50 billion bank for infrastructure projects and a $100 billion crisis reserve fund described as a “mini-IMF.”

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff insisted that the BRICS were not seeking to distance themselves from the Washington-based International Monetary Fund.

“On the contrary, we wish to democratize it and make it as representative as possible,” she told reporters following talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi before joining other leaders.

Emerging and developing nations have been frustrated at the slow pace of IMF reform aimed at giving them bigger voting rights within the institution

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