Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto attended the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, where the New Delhi Declaration emphasized education, innovation, and people-to-people exchange among BRICS member states.
Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin shared the stage at the BRICS summit, but the article argues the central story was India’s diplomacy and its ability to build consensus.
BRICS’ New Delhi Declaration reaffirms support for preventing an arms race in outer space, opposes weaponization and threats to satellites, and commits to reducing space capability asymmetries among member states.
As the BRICS summit in New Delhi continues, the article compares BRICS and G7 in terms of membership, population, economic size, trade, and geopolitical orientation.
At the two-day BRICS Summit in New Delhi, member states unanimously adopted the New Delhi Declaration 2026, expressing concern over unilateral tariffs and non-tariff trade barriers and reaffirming support for a rules-based multilateral trading system.
At the BRICS Summit 2026, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented a 10-point draft and described BRICS as a platform for cooperation rather than conflict.
The adoption of a joint declaration by BRICS leaders was seen as a sign of consensus among the bloc’s diverse members.
The article describes a cultural side event during the BRICS summit, where the daughter of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian visited a BRICS market featuring crafts from member countries.
India proposed a BRICS Seafarers Emergency Support Network at the summit, linking maritime authorities and missions to provide distress alerts, medical aid, family information and evacuation amid attacks on merchant ships.
