PM Modi to attend virtual summit of BRICS on November 17

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend a virtual summit of the influential grouping BRICS on November 17 which is able to focus on cooperation in counter-terrorism, commerce, well being, power and methods to offset affect of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Chinese President Xi Jinping, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and Russian President Vladimir Putin are scheduled to attend the twelfth summit of the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) grouping.

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The BRICS summit is happening at a time two of the Bloc’s members, India and China, are locked in a bitter border standoff in jap Ladakh for over six months. Both Mr. Modi and Mr. Xi had come face-to-face just about on the annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) on November 10.

“At the invitation of President Putin, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be attending the 12th BRICS Summit hosted by Russia, under the theme ‘Global Stability, Shared Security and Innovative Growth’ on November 17,” the Ministry of (*17*) Affairs (MEA) stated in a press release.

The BRICS is named an influential Bloc that represents over 3.6 billion folks, or half of the world’s inhabitants. The BRICS nations have a mixed GDP of USD 16.6 trillion.

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The MEA stated the leaders could be discussing intra-BRICS cooperation and key points within the international context, together with the reform of the multilateral system, measures to mitigate the affect of the continued COVID-19 pandemic, cooperation in counter-terrorism, commerce, well being, power and people-to-people exchanges.

“India will be taking over the chair of the BRICS, which would be the third BRICS Presidency for India since its inception (after 2012 and 2016) and will host the 13th BRICS summit in 2021,” the MEA stated.