Jaishankar to Chair BRICS Foreign Ministers' Virtual Meeting Today
Jaishankar to Chair BRICS Foreign Ministers' Virtual Meeting Today
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External affairs minister S Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi are set to come face to face on Tuesday. Boosting cooperation in effectively dealing with the coronavirus pandemic is expected to figure at a virtual meeting.

China and three other member countries of the BRICS will come together over the issue of coronavirus on Tuesday. The foreign ministers are also likely to discuss the need for reforming the multilateral system and ways to enhance cooperation in countering terrorism, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Monday. India is hosting the meeting as the chair of Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa. According to MEA, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will chair the meeting and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, Chinese counterpart Wang Yi and the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor are expected to participate. Brazilian Foreign Minister Carlos Alberto Franco is also likely to attend the virtual meeting. The MEA said global and regional matters of concern, sustainable development and countering terrorism are the other issues will be discussed. Talks to enhance the intra-BRICS cooperation, especially people-to-people cooperation will be done. The BRICS is known as an influential bloc that represents over 360 crore people and its member countries have a combined GDP of USD 16.6 trillion. India is the BRICS chair for 2021. The theme and approach for India’s BRICS chairship is “BRICS@15: Intra BRICS Cooperation for Continuity, Consolidation and Consensus".

The BRICS brings together five of the world’s largest developing countries, The New Development Bank, the flagship outcome of BRICS, continues to fund projects in infrastructure and sustainable development. It is learnt that 76 projects so far have been approved by the NDB in BRICS countries.

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