As India is set to host 13th BRICS Summit, MEA Jaishankar launches 2021 website

India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday launched a website for five-nation grouping BRICS, a bloc that represents over 3.6 billion people, nearly half world’s population. Taking to his official Twitter handle, Jaishankar anunced, “Glad to have launched #BRICS2021 website. Will provide a comprehensive snapshot of our strong BRICS engment and exhaustive calendar of events during BRICS at 15 under Chairmanship of India.” leaders of BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) met for first time in St. Petersburg, Russia, on margins of G8 Outreach Summit in July 2006. Later, group was formalized as BRIC during 1st BRIC Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, and met on sidelines of General Debate of UN Assembly in New York City, according to BRICS India website. 

At a ceremony held at BRICS Secretariat at Sushma Swaraj Bhawan, Jaishankar unveiled website, http://www.brics2021.gov.in that groups major emerging ecomies from world. member countries of BRICS, which have a combined GDP of USD 16.6 trillion, comprise 41 percent of world population, approximately 24 percent of world GDP, and 16 percent share in world trade.

"Under me BRICS@15: Intra-BRICS Cooperation, India's approach is focused on strengning collaboration through continuity, consolidation, and consensus," Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said in a statement to PTI.

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Reform of 'multilateral system'

MEA added, that this year, priorities for BRICS will include reform of multilateral system, counter-terrorism cooperation, techlogical and digital solutions for sustainable development goals, and enhancing people-to-people cooperation.  website, which is w LIVE, displays updated and dynamic information and useful links related to pillars of BRICS, calendar of events, documents, and ims from previous meetings. 13th BRICS Summit will be held under India’s Chairship in 2021, and it will be  third time India will host BRICS Summit after 2012 and 2016. me for India’s Chairship for 2021 would be ‘BRICS @ 15: Intra-BRICS Cooperation for Continuity, Consolidation, and Consensus’. 

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(Ims Credit: BRICS India Website)