Prime Minister Narendra Modi chairs 13th BRICS Summit

Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi chaired the 13th BRICS Summit on September 09, 2021, through video conferencing.
BRICS is an association of five major emerging economies comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
The theme of the India-led Summit was “BRICS@15: Intra-BRICS Cooperation for Continuity, Consolidation and Consensus.”
The theme chosen by India reflects the fifteenth anniversary of BRICS, being observed in 2021.
Apart from this, as the President of BRICS in 2021, India has highlighted four priority areas for this year’s BRICS Summit, which were:
1. reform of the multilateral system,
2. counter-terrorism cooperation,
3. using digital and technological tools to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG),
4. enhancing people-to-people exchanges
PM Modi called for enhanced BRICS cooperation under the motto of ‘Build-back Resiliently, Innovatively, Credibly and Sustainably’.
All BRICS Leaders took part virtually in the Summit, including Brazil President-Jair Bolsonaro, Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Xi Jinping of China, and President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa.
The Summit concluded with the adoption of the ‘New Delhi Declaration’.
This was the third time that India hosted the BRICS Summit. Prior to this India held the Presidency of the BRICS in 2012 and 2016.
Also, this is the second time that Prime Minister Modi chaired the BRICS Summit. He had previously chaired the Goa Summit in 2016.

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