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BRICS Summit 2026: Leaders Advance AI, Resilience and Global South Cooperation

BRICS Summit 2026, Nash equilibrium and Anganwadis
Countries
ChinaIndiaIranRussiaUnited Arab Emirates
Cooperation areas
Economic GrowthInclusive MultilateralismInstitutional DevelopmentPeace & DevelopmentSustainable Development

Source: The Indian Express | Original Published At: 2026-09-14 13:23:22 UTC

Key Points

  • BRICS adopted the New Delhi Declaration, setting out common positions on trade, terrorism, artificial intelligence, institutional reform and conflicts in West Asia.
  • India presented resilience, innovation, cooperation and sustainability as the four pillars of its BRICS chairmanship.
  • China proposed a BRICS open-source AI community supporting large-language-model development, training and wider access to artificial intelligence resources.
  • Leaders announced cooperation mechanisms covering infectious-disease warnings, logistics, start-ups, MSMEs, smart grids, urban mobility and regenerative agriculture.
  • The declaration opposed unilateral trade restrictions and supported faster, cheaper and safer cross-border payments using members' local currencies without proposing a common BRICS currency.
  • BRICS called for stronger counter-terrorism cooperation and condemned the April 2025 Pahalgam attack.
  • The declaration urged restraint and diplomatic solutions in West Asia while supporting humanitarian access, uninterrupted trade and energy flows, and a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine.
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