Prime Minister Narendra Modi to chair BRICS summit

Tribune News Service
|New Delhi, September 6

As part of India’s ongoing Chairship of BRICS in 2021, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair the 13th BRICS Summit on September 9 in virtual format.

The meeting will be attended by Brazilian President Jair Bolsanaro; Russia’s Vladimir Putin; China’s Xi Jinping; South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa.

National Security Adviser, Ajit Doval, President of the New Development Bank Marcos Troyjo, the pro tempore Chair of the BRICS Business Council Onkar Kanwar and pro tempore Chair of the BRICS Women’s Business Alliance Sangita Reddy, will present reports on the outcomes pursued this year under their respective tracks to the leaders during the summit.

The theme for the summit is ‘BRICS@15: Intra-BRICS cooperation for continuity, consolidation and consensus’. India had outlined four priority areas for its Chairship.

These are Reform of the Multilateral System, Counter Terrorism, Using Digital and Technological Tools for achieving SDGs and Enhancing People to People exchanges. In addition, the leaders will also exchange views on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and other current global and regional issues, an MEA release said.

This is the second time PM Modi will be chairing the BRICS Summit. Earlier he had chaired the Goa Summit in 2016.

The Indian Chairship of BRICS this year coincides with the fifteenth anniversary of BRICS, as reflected in the theme for the Summit. and consensus’. India had outlined four priority areas for its Chairship. These are Reform of the Multilateral System, Counter Terrorism, Using Digital and Technological Tools for achieving SDGs and Enhancing People to People exchanges. In addition to these areas, the leaders will also exchange views on the impact of the pandemic and other current global and regional issues.