PM Modi looks forward to engaging with BRICS leaders; says he will visit Myanmar for two days

India Prime Minister Narendra Modi shared a series of tweets on the even before embarking on the BRICS summit in Xiamen, China.

PM Modi said that the summit would be building on what the five nations – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – built on from last year’s meeting in Goa.

The three-day summit in Xiamen, a southeastern Chinese city in Fujian province, will begin tomorrow even as authorities declared a high alert with Typhoon Mawar expected to hit the coastal region.

“We will also interact with the BRICS Business Council represented by captains of industry from all five countries. In addition, I look forward to engaging with leaders of nine other countries, including BRICS partners, in an Emerging Markets and Developing Countries Dialogue, hosted by President Xi Jinping on 5 September. I will have the opportunity to meet leaders bilaterally on the sidelines of the Summit. India attaches high importance to the role of BRICS that has begun a second decade of its partnership for progress and peace. BRICS has important contributions to make in addressing global challenges and upholding world peace and security,” the prime minister said in a Facebook post.

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