CARACAS, February 20. /TASS/. Venezuela will join BRICS in the near future, the country's President Nicolas Maduro said.

The president pointed out that the "old colonial world with wars, interventions, genocide and a superiority complex" is being replaced by "a new world with BRICS." According to him, "this world already exists and is irreversible."

"The trend of the emergence of a new world and the consolidation of BRICS is irreversible, and Venezuela will soon be part of BRICS," Maduro said on the Venezolana de Television TV channel.