Prime Minister Narendra Modi will play host to President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil, President Vladimir Putin of Russia, President Xi Jinping of China and President Jacob Zuma of South Africa for the eighth BRICS summit in Goa in October.
“I am happy to share that the 8th BRICS Summit will be hosted in Goa on October 15-16, 2016,” External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said.
India recently took over the chairmanship of the BRICS (a bloc comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) from the Russian Federation for the year 2016.
Swaraj congratulated the Russian Federation for steering the BRICS process “commendably” culminating with the 7th BRICS Summit in Ufa in July 2015. She on Tuesday formally unveiled the BRICS logo for the duration of India’s chairmanship of the bloc. She also launched India’s BRICS website.
She handed over a cash reward of Rs 50,000 to Sudeep Gandhi of Mumbai for winning the BRICS logo contest. The MEA had conducted the contest and received well over 575 entries from across the country.
Over 50 meetings and events, at the Ministerial, Senior Officials, Working Groups, Technical, and Track-II levels, are proposed to be organized during India’s BRICS chairmanship through the year, according to a press release by the MEA.
“Our core theme for the BRICS chairmanship is – Building Responsive, Inclusive and Collective Solutions (BRICS). We will adopt a five-pronged approach during our chairmanship. It will comprise Institution Building, Implementation, Integration, Innovation, and Continuity with Consolidation (IIIIC or I4C),” noted the minister.
New Delhi will emphasise on institution building, implementation of previous commitments flowing from the past Summits, and exploring synergies among the existing mechanisms.