In a joint declaration on the 17th BRICS Summit on Sunday, the nations of the BRICS Summit prolonged help for India’s BRICS Chairship for the yr 2026. The leaders additionally welcomed India’s candidacy to host the thirty third Convention of the Events (COP 33) of the United Nations Framework Conference on Local weather Change (UNFCCC) within the yr 2028.
The BRICS chief additionally reiterated India’s inclusion to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) as a everlasting member.
“Recalling the 2022 Beijing and 2023 Johannesburg-II Leaders’ Declarations, China and Russia, as everlasting members of the United Nations Safety Council, reiterate their help to the aspirations of Brazil and India to play a higher function within the United Nations, together with its Safety Council,” the Rio de Janeiro Declaration acknowledged.
The declaration titled ‘Strengthening World South Cooperation for a Extra Inclusive and Sustainable Governance’ additionally acknowledged India’s initiative to launch BRICS Startup Data Hub.
We acknowledge the progress achieved within the implementation of the BRICS Motion Plan for Innovation 2021-2024, which included the launching of the BRICS Startup Discussion board in January 2025, underneath the management of India, and respect the launch of its BRICS Startup Data Hub, to foster collaboration and deeper engagement among the many startup ecosystems of the BRICS nations, as acknowledged within the BRICS declaration.BRICS appreciated the efforts made by India for organizing the Capability Constructing Classes on Digital Transformation in BRICS as a side-event and encourage BRICS members to proceed selling aspect occasions. The nations saluted India’s step to strengthen the voice of the African Union throughout its presidency of G20 in 2023. Beneath local weather change initiatives, the BRICS declaration acknowledged, “Whereas appreciating the efforts of our nations to protect uncommon species and noting the excessive vulnerability of huge cats, we pay attention to the Republic of India’s initiative to create a global Huge Cats Alliance and encourage BRICS nations to work collectively to the conservation of huge cats.”
This yr, BRICS added Indonesia as a brand new member to the group. Additionally, Republic of Belarus, the Plurinational State of Bolivia, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Republic of Cuba, the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Malaysia, the Kingdom of Thailand, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the Republic of Uganda, and the Republic of Uzbekistan had been added as BRICS accomplice nations.
