BRICS Summit 2024 live updates: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other world leaders on Wednesday posed for a family photo at the Kazan Expo Center, ahead of the 16th BRICS Summit.
BRICS Summit 2024 live updates: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping are set to hold their first bilateral talks in 5 years on the sidelines of BRICS summit today, in Russia’s Kazan. This comes after both India and China took significant steps to ease the border dispute between the neighbouring countries.…Read More
The meeting between PM Modi and Xi Jinping marks the first formal interaction between the two leaders in five years and follows the two countries reaching an agreement on resuming regular patrolling along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh.
Issuing a statement on the same, Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said on Tuesday, “I can confirm that there will be a bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping tomorrow on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit.”
The last time Modi interacted with Jinping was in 2019 in Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu, just a few months before the military standoff at Galwan in June 2020 which led to multiple casualties.
More updates on BRICS Summit 2024
– President Vladimir Putin, opening the BRICS summit in Kazan, stated that the formation of a “multipolar world order” is in progress and irreversible. Addressing leaders from countries including India and China, he described this transformation as dynamic.
– UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres arrived in Kazan on Wednesday to attend the BRICS summit, marking his first meeting with President Putin in more than two years. Amid rising international concerns over conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine, Guterres will meet with several leaders at the summit, including a scheduled meeting with Putin on Thursday, according to the UN.
– Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the 16th BRICS Summit in Kazan. Modi invited Putin to visit India next year for the 23rd India-Russia Annual Summit. The two leaders discussed cooperation in various areas, including politics, economics, defence, energy, and people-to-people ties, according to a press release from the Prime Minister’s Office.
– Russia welcomed the peace initiative on Ukraine proposed by China and Brazil, according to Reuters, quoting a senior Kremlin aide. The proposal was discussed during bilateral meetings held on the sidelines of the BRICS forum in Kazan, Interfax reported.
What is BRICS?
BRICS is an informal alliance made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. The formation of BRICS was initiated by Russia.
The alliance later added four new members – Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates – on January 1, 2024.
The 2024 BRICS summit, the sixteenth of its kind, is currently being held in Kazan, Russia, from October 22 to 24, 2024.
