Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reached Brazil on Sunday (local time on Saturday evening) after completing his visit to Ghana and Trinidad and Tobago. He will attend the 2025 BRICS summit to be held here at Rio de Janeiro here. This year’s BRICS summit is special as Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russia leader Vladimir Putin will not join it. Nevertheless, the agenda of this annual meeting is quite full.
Brazil is the fourth stop of Prime Minister Modi’s visit to five countries, which began on 2 July. They first went to Ghana, then Trinidad and Tobago. He then reached Argentina, which was the first visit of an Indian Prime Minister in the last five decades. Now he will go to Namibia from Brazil, where his long diplomatic tour will end.
PM Modi in Brazil, BRICS Agenda of India
The first priority of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is that a group of BRICS countries should strongly condemn terrorism. It is expected that the BRICS manifesto released at Rio de Janeiro will condemn the Pahalgam terror attack. On April 22, 26 people lost their lives in this attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, most of which were tourists.
India started Operation Sindoor on 7 May in response to this attack, targeting terrorist bases in POJK (Pakistan Occupied Jammu and Kashmir) and Pakistan.
Apart from this, there will be talk on many more important issues at the BRICS summit:
Climate Finance: Money arrangements to deal with climate change.
Cooperation on artificial intelligence (AI): Working together in the field of AI.
New health initiative: New schemes in the health sector to reduce inequality.
Trade in national currencies: India is emphasizing that the country should trade in their own currency (money), so that the dependence on US dollar is reduced.
BRICS opinion on Trump’s tariff
The “indiscriminate” trade duty (tariff) imposed by US President Donald Trump is also expected to be condemned at a meeting of BRICS leaders at Rio de Janeiro on Sunday. These fees will be described as illegal and said that they can harm the global economy.
According to the draft statement of the Summit by AFP, these emerging countries, which represent half the world’s population and contribute 40 percent to global economic production, have come together to express “serious concerns” about US import duty.
The draft declaration has not directly named the United States or its President, but leaders can make changes in the conversation on Sunday and Monday.
The draft states, “We express serious concerns over unilateral tariffs and such non-tariff measures that spoil the business and are against the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO).” The draft warns that such steps ‘threaten to further reduce global trade’ and ‘are affecting the possibilities of global economic development.’