PM Modi chairs 13th BRICS Summit; discuss Afghan situation
PM Modi chaired the 13th BRICS Summit virtually on September 9
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New Delhi, September 10: Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired the 13th BRICS Summit virtually on September 9. The theme of this Summit (Chosen by India) was BRICS@15: Intra-BRICS Cooperation for Continuity, Consolidation, and Consensus.
President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, President Vladimir Putin of Russia, President Xi Jinping of China, and President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, also participated in this summit.
The PM expressed his appreciation for cooperation received from the BRICS partners during India's Chairship this year. These included the first BRICS Digital Health Summit; the first BRICS Ministerial Joint Statement on multilateral reforms; a BRICS Counter-Terrorism Action Plan; an Agreement on cooperation in field of remote-sensing satellites; a virtual BRICS vaccine Research & Development Centre; BRICS Alliance on Green Tourism, among others.
The PM called for enhanced BRICS cooperation under the motto of 'Build-back Resiliently, Innovatively, Credibly and Sustainably'.
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Modi also stressed on the need for accelerating 'build-back' improving the speed and accessibility of vaccination, creating 'resilience' by diversifying pharma and vaccine production capacities, fostering 'innovation' by using digital tools for public good, ensuring reform of multilateral institutions to enhance 'credibility', and promote 'sustainable' development by finding a common BRICS voice on the environmental and climate issues.
The leaders also discussed regional / global issues, like the recent developments in Afghanistan.
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At the conclusion of the Summit, the leaders adopted the 'New Delhi Declaration'.