BRICS Adopts 20th-Anniversary Declaration to Safeguard Trade, Supply Chains and Energy Flow
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Updated · Al Jazeera English · Sep 12
BRICS Adopts 20th-Anniversary Declaration to Safeguard Trade, Supply Chains and Energy Flow
3 articles · Updated · Al Jazeera English · Sep 12
Summary
New Delhi’s two-day BRICS summit opened with unanimous backing for a joint declaration calling for cooperation to keep global trade, supply chains and energy moving despite mounting disruptions.
Wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, along with tariffs hitting several members, drove the push; the bloc also put cross-border payments and artificial-intelligence cooperation high on the agenda.
Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin and Masoud Pezeshkian attended, with Xi making his first India visit in 7 years as Beijing and New Delhi seek to thaw ties and as leaders weighed regional conflict.
Internal strains still shadow the expanded bloc: Iran and the UAE sit on opposite sides of the US-Israel war on Iran, and BRICS foreign ministers failed in May to agree a joint statement on that conflict.
The declaration gives host India an early consensus point as BRICS marks 20 years and tests whether its broader membership can act as a more coordinated Global South counterweight.