Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has urged BRICS member states to transfer their cost-effective technology to developing partners.
He made the urge as he joined the Friends of BRICS Foreign Ministers' Meeting virtually on Friday at the invitation of South African Foreign Minister Dr Naledi Pandor being held in Cape Town, a Foreign Ministry press release said.
BRICS consist of five regional economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
Momen referred to the development, economic, environmental and health-related focus of BRICS.
He said that the current global economic crises are inducing countries to cooperate more in regional and multilateral platforms, BSS reported.
He underlined the need for a more coordinated approach to tackle the economic and environmental crises.
Momen particularly stressed mutual cooperation so that no one is left behind as propagated by the SDG of the UN.
The meeting was attended by the foreign ministers of the BRICS member countries and ministers and dignitaries of several countries of Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, mainly the developing and emerging economies of the world.
The meeting covered the theme of mutually accelerated growth and sustainable and inclusive multilateralism.
Aside from the BRICS Foreign Ministers, the Foreign Ministers of Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, China and Kazakhstan, among others, participated in the meeting.
Bangladesh became a member of the New Development Bank in 2021, the development financing window of BRICS.