BRICS: Global Alliances Must Unite to Topple the US Dollar's Supremacy
At the BRICS Forum Trade in Brazil this week, Nigeria’s House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Wole Oke, called on all global alliances to stand united and join the force to topple the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency. The Foreign Minister also said that BRICS must start trading in local currencies and other alliances will follow suit. He called for the African Union, the ASEAN bloc, MERCOSUR, and all other global alliances to join hands with BRICS and settle trade in local currencies and not the US dollar. The call to uproot the US dollar is growing lately with emerging economies looking to cut ties with the greenback. Also Read: BRICS: 71 Countries Settled Trade Without the US Dollar “BRICS is not a closed club. Let’s work with the African Union, ASEAN, and MERCOSUR to shape a new global trade order that is fair and inclusive,” he said to Punch Newspaper. Oke said that the traditional way of the financial sector must end ushering the world into a new era of finances. The ...