BRICS 2025 LIVE: Brazil Hosts Crucial Global Power Talks

Primary Keyword to focus on Title: This is the 4th leg of PM Modi’s 5-nation tour, which began on July 2. He landed in Argentina for the first time as an Indian PM in over 50 years. Now he is in Brazil and will head to Namibia to conclude his longest diplomatic tour so far.

The BRICS summit will be without the two big bloc leaders. Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian leader Vladimir Putin will not attend this year. But the summit has a packed agenda.

PM Narendra Modi’s top priority is that the BRICS bloc of nations calls out terrorism in clear terms. The BRICS declaration in Rio de Janeiro is expected to condemn the Pahalgam terror attack which killed 26 people, mostly tourists, in the Jammu and Kashmir resort town of Pahalgam on April 22.

India launched Operation Sindoor on May 7 in response to the attack, targeting terror infrastructure in PoJK and Pakistan.

Apart from that, the BRICS summit is expected to adopt a framework for climate finance, collaboration on artificial intelligence, and a new health initiative to reduce disparities.

India is also pushing for trade settlement in national currencies, which would reduce the global South’s dependence on the US dollar.

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BRICS is a group of 11 major emerging economies. These include Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, UAE, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia.

The aim is to promote economic, political, and social cooperation among these countries. Initially, it was a group of 4 countries which were called BRIC

This name was given by Goldman Sachs economist Jim O’Neill in 2001.

Then they had said that Brazil, Russia, India, and China would drive the global economy in the coming decades. Later these countries came together and adopted this name.

BRICS leaders meeting in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday are expected to denounce US President Donald Trump’s “indiscriminate” trade tariffs, saying they are illegal and will hurt the global economy.

Emerging nations which represent half the world’s population and 40% of global output have united over “serious concerns” about US import tariffs, according to a draft summit statement obtained by AFP on Saturday.

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Analysts and diplomats say the lack of cohesion in an enlarged BRICS which has 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.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will have some of his priorities, such as debates on artificial intelligence and climate change, on the table for talks with leaders who are not attending.

“Brazil wants the least amount of damage possible and to avoid drawing the attention of the Trump administration to prevent any type of risk to the Brazilian economy,” Garcia said.

While Brazil will continue to push for reform of Western-led global institutions, a cornerstone policy of the group, the country wants to avoid being targeted by tariffs — a situation it has so far managed to escape.

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