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BRICS summit: Leaders eye expansion, common currency

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The BRICS leaders, from left: Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Xi Jinping, Cyril Ramaphosa, Narendra Modi and Sergey Lavrov. [BRICS/Handout/AA/picture alliance]

The leaders of the BRICS countries have agreed on a roadmap for how to allow new states to join their group of up-and-coming economies, South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor told Ubuntu Radio - a station run by her own ministry.

"We have agreed on the matter of expansion," she said.

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