“We are heading to #South Africa to participate in the #BRICS Summit, a key economic space in times in which a new multipolar world is configured,” the president wrote.

Arce informed on Twitter that before leaving he handed over the Command to Vice President David Choquehuanca.

In statements to Prensa Latina, the Minister of Economy, Marcelo Montenegro, described as “important” the presence of the president at the summit in Johannesburg.

“The elements that Bolivia potentially has in terms of generating energy and producing food, surely this group of emerging nations is going to take them into account for our country to be taken as an important ally”, the minister said to this news agency.

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