Eighteenth BRICS summit opens in New Delhi

The bank’s annual meeting held a governors’ seminar on development financing in a technological revolution, connecting its development mandate to new technologies.

The foreign ministers’ meeting concluded with a chair’s statement and outcome document that supported India’s BRICS agenda. This is a chair’s document, not a leaders’ declaration.

India hosted the eleventh BRICS Foreign Policy Dialogue, extending consultation among the members before the September summit.

The New Development Bank records Uzbekistan as a member effective 5 June. NDB membership is separate from full BRICS membership.

The sixteenth meeting brought national security advisers and security officials together under India’s chairship.

The summit declaration sought a fairer, more representative multilateral system and meaningful participation for emerging and developing countries.

Leaders cited the 1955 Asian-African Conference and its principles of equality, independence, non-intervention and mutual benefit as a guide to more inclusive multilateralism.

The declaration supported stronger representation for developing countries from Africa, Asia and Latin America, and recognized African aspirations in the Ezulwini Consensus and Sirte Declaration.

Leaders welcomed a UN resolution on enslavement of Africans and urged implementation of a UN resolution to eradicate colonialism in all its forms.

The declaration noted a South Africa–Brazil proposal for an international panel on inequality while treating poverty reduction as central to sustainable development. It did not announce an established...