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Updated – July 06, 2025 08:41 pm IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets world leaders at the BRICS Summit on July 6, 2025. Photo: Videograb/YouTube:@narendramodi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has arrived at Museum of Modern Art to attend 17th BRICS Summit on Sunday (July 6, 2025).
On a four-day visit, PM Modi will participate in the 17th BRICS Summit and also undertake a state visit. Earlier, the Prime Minister was accorded a ceremonial welcome upon his arrival at the Galeao International Airport.
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This is the fourth leg of his five-nation visit. The Prime Minister was accorded a ceremonial welcome upon his arrival at the Galeao International Airport on Saturday evening (local time). “Hoping for a productive round of meetings and interactions during this visit,” Mr. Modi said in a post on X. The Prime Minister arrived in Brazil from Argentina, where he held wide-ranging talks with President Javier Milei and agreed to diversify two-way trade and ramp up cooperation in defence, critical minerals, pharmaceutical, energy and mining sectors.
Mr. Modi attendance at the BRICS Summit will be followed by a state visit, for which he will travel to Brasilia. It will be the first bilateral visit to the country by an Indian Prime Minister in nearly six decades.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanked Brazilian President Lula for hosting the BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro this year.
“BRICS remains a powerful force for economic cooperation and global good,” said PM Modi.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to participate in the BRICS Summit.
With Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Brazil to attend the BRICS Summit, the Congress on Sunday (July 6, 2025) recalled the events leading up to the formation of the grouping as well as the Summit hosted by India in 2012 during which then PM Manmohan Singh had proposed the establishment of a BRICS Development Bank.
Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh said, “After dropping by in Ghana, Trinidad & Tobago, and Argentina, the Super Premium Frequent Flier Prime Minister has reached Brazil. The Seventeenth BRICS Summit begins today in Rio de Janeiro.” It was in 1998 that the Arabic-speaking, Asia-leaning, Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov floated the idea of a trilateral forum called RIC – Russia, India and China – he recalled.
This was done to promote multipolarity in global affairs when the U.S. was triumphant, Mr. Ramesh said in his post on X.
– PTI
Brazil will play host to a summit of the BRICS bloc of developing economies on Sunday and Monday (July 6 and 7, 2025) during which pressing topics like Israel’s attack on Iran, the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and trade tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump are expected to be handled with caution.
Analysts and diplomats said the lack of cohesion in an enlarged BRICS, which doubled in size last year, may affect its ability to become another pole in world affairs. They also see the summit’s moderate agenda as an attempt by member countries to stay off Trump’s radar.
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BRICS summit in Brazil focuses on non-controversial issues amid absence of key leaders, aiming to avoid Trump's attention.
During the visit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro on July 6 and 7, followed by a state visit, for which he will travel to Brasilia.
It will be the first bilateral visit to the country by an Indian prime minister in nearly six decades. BRICS, consisting of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, has been expanded with five additional members: Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE.
In his departure statement, PM Modi said that as a founding member of BRICS, India is committed to the bloc as a vital platform for cooperation among emerging economies.
– PTI
Published – July 06, 2025
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