From BRICS Platform, India Promotes Peace and Diplomatic Balance

Source: नवभारत टाइम्स | Original Published At: 2026-09-09 17:45:17 UTC

Key Points

• India will chair the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi on 12-13 September and is expected to promote peace, diplomacy, and practical economic cooperation.
• Russian Presidential Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Russia would welcome India's efforts to end the Ukraine conflict peacefully and noted similar thinking between India and Russia.
• India's position on conflicts such as Russia-Ukraine, Israel-Palestine, and Iran-US tensions is to support dialogue and de-escalation rather than siding with one party.
• The summit will bring together countries with differing regional positions, including Iran and the UAE, after a May BRICS foreign ministers meeting failed to issue a joint statement due to disagreements.
• India seeks to present BRICS as a cooperation platform rather than an anti-Western bloc, prioritizing global institutional reform, strengthening the New Development Bank, digital technology, health, energy, and food security.
• India's agenda also includes easier trade in local currencies and cross-border digital payments.
• This is India's fourth BRICS chairmanship, after 2012, 2016, and 2021, amid an expanded and more diverse BRICS membership that poses coordination challenges.