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Monday, July 14, 2014

BRICS neutrality on Ukraine a diplomatic win for Putin

Russian President Putin and Cuba's President Castro attend a wreath-laying ceremony in Havana By Anthony Boadle FORTALEZA Brazil (Reuters) - A summit of the BRICS group of emerging market countries will abstain from criticizing Russia’s recent actions in Ukraine, Brazilian officials said, a diplomatic victory for President Vladimir Putin. The summit statement will make only a passing reference to Ukraine and will echo the neutral stance adopted by Russia's fellow BRICS countries - China, India, Brazil and South Africa - at the United Nations, according to Brazilian diplomats organizing Tuesday's meeting in Fortaleza. Facing efforts to isolate Russia by leading Western nations, the BRICS summit provides Putin with a welcome geopolitical platform to show he has friends elsewhere, economic powers seen as shaping the future of the world.




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