BRICS Summit begins in Kazan today, first since grouping’s expansion in Jan

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian connected Monday said, “We volition support you posted if thing comes up.” China had past week announced Xi’s attendance astatine the BRICS Summit, saying “he volition enactment with different parties to unfastened a caller epoch for the Global South to question spot done solidarity”.

Besides Russian President Vladimir Putin, PM Modi and President Xi, participating heads of authorities see Turkey President Recep Erdogan and Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian, among others. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva volition skip the acme successful Kazan, owing to aesculapian advice, but volition articulation the league via video link. The leaders are expected to sermon cardinal planetary issues including the Ukraine warfare and West Asia crisis.

Briefing reporters up of PM Modi’s two-day sojourn to Russia for the summit, Misri said, “The leaders are besides expected to follow the Kazan Declaration which volition laic the way guardant for BRICS. This papers is presently being negotiated successful Kazan.” While the acme ends connected October 24, PM Modi volition instrumentality connected October 23 aft the sessions owing to commitments backmost home.

There is besides a Modi-Putin gathering connected Tuesday, their 2nd successful caller months. Modi had visited Russia successful July.

This is simply a large multilateral acme for the Russian President aft two-and-half years of warfare with Ukraine, and helium is projecting it arsenic a powerfulness infinitesimal for the Kremlin contempt Western sanctions. Misri asserted that India views BRICS arsenic a cardinal look of planetary multi-polarity. “India’s relation astatine the acme is arsenic an important dependable successful a increasing statement connected multipolarity planetary governance reforms (such arsenic UN Security Council and IMF) and betterment successful commercialized architecture specified arsenic WTO,” helium said.

The alliance, which aims to counterbalance the Western-led satellite order, started to rapidly grow this year. On January 1 this year, BRICS admitted 4 caller members: Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates. Meanwhile, Turkiye, Azerbaijan and Malaysia person formally applied, and a fig of others expressed a tendency to beryllium members.

Ahead of the summit, President Putin said that the BRICS radical volition make astir of the planetary economical maturation successful the coming years. He besides called for BRICS nations to research a SWIFT-like cross-border payments strategy immune to Western sanctions arsenic good arsenic usage nationalist integer currencies successful financing concern projects to extremity US dollar dominance.