New Delhi: The 18th BRICS Summit began yesterday at Bharat Mandapam in Delhi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi shared some photographs he took yesterday on social media.
Among them is a photograph of Prime Minister Modi standing hand in hand with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin. This is the third meeting among these three leaders in the past three years.
Leaders including Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, and Vietnamese Prime Minister Le Minh Hung also took part in this conference.
Participation of the UN Secretary-General
UN Secretary-General António Guterres, World Trade Organization Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, New Development Bank President Dilma Rousseff, and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank President Zou Jiayi also took part in the conference.
At a time when the global economy is facing a range of challenges, this conference has gained even greater importance. In particular, the conference is being held amid the impacts of the Russia-Ukraine war, the West Asian crisis, the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, and the trade and import tariff policies of U.S. President Trump’s administration.
