BRICS countries have committed to strengthening collaboration on skills forecasting and launched Brics CONNECT, a platform for technical cooperation, knowledge exchange and capacity building on jobs, skills and social protection.
The New Delhi Declaration adopted by BRICS leaders addresses organised digital fraud, scam compounds, cybersecurity cooperation, and global governance of artificial intelligence.
BRICS leaders welcomed a new cooperation network focused on skills, employability, social security and technology, while also endorsing capacity-building centres for member states.
India’s 2026 BRICS presidency and the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi are framed as an opportunity to advance local-currency trade, digital payments, UPI connectivity and rupee internationalisation.
An editorial argues that BRICS should move from accepting existing global rules to shaping them, while maintaining a non-confrontational stance toward the West.
The 18th BRICS summit endorsed local-currency settlement, payment interoperability and BRICS Pay, while stopping short of a common currency and navigating Iran-UAE tensions.
India steered the expanded BRICS grouping to adopt the New Delhi Declaration by consensus, secured collective condemnation of the Pahalgam attack, and positioned the summit around Global South priorities rather than an anti-Western agenda.
At the closing session of the BRICS summit under India’s presidency, leaders called for stronger cooperation on supply chains, early-warning systems, innovation, and economic resilience.
Chinese, Egyptian and Russian leaders addressed the 18th BRICS Leaders’ Summit in New Delhi, emphasizing supply-chain stability, multilateral cooperation, development finance, AI governance and intra-BRICS trade.
