India Outlines BRICS 2026 Priorities: Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation, Sustainability
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Source: The Tribune | Original Published At: 2026-01-13 06:50:12 UTC
Key Points
- India's BRICS 2026 Chairship will prioritize resilience, innovation, cooperation, and sustainability across the grouping's three pillars: political/security, economic/financial, and cultural exchanges.
- Resilience focus includes strengthening agriculture, health, disaster response, energy, and supply chains through cooperative frameworks.
- Innovation emphasis on leveraging emerging technologies to address developing nations' socio-economic challenges while maintaining people-centric approaches.
- Sustainability commitments include climate action, clean energy promotion, and equitable development pathways.
- New BRICS logo symbolizes unity in diversity, incorporating member countries' colors and identities.
- BRICS expanded to 13 members with Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, UAE joining in 2024, followed by Indonesia in 2025, and 11 partner countries including Belarus and Kazakhstan.