In a joint declaration on the seventeenth BRICS Summit on Sunday, the international locations of the BRICS Summit prolonged assist for India's BRICS Chairship for the yr 2026. The leaders additionally welcomed India's candidacy to host the thirty third Convention of the Events (COP 33) of the United Nations Framework Conference on Local weather Change (UNFCCC) within the yr 2028.
The BRICS chief additionally reiterated India's inclusion to the United Nations Safety Council (UNSC) as a everlasting member.
“Recalling the 2022 Beijing and 2023 Johannesburg-II Leaders' Declarations, China and Russia, as everlasting members of the United Nations Safety Council, reiterate their assist to the aspirations of Brazil and India to play a higher function within the United Nations, together with its Safety Council,” the Rio de Janeiro Declaration said.
The declaration titled ‘Strengthening World South Cooperation for a Extra Inclusive and Sustainable Governance' additionally acknowledged India's initiative to launch BRICS Startup Information Hub.
We acknowledge the progress achieved within the implementation of the BRICS Motion Plan for Innovation 2021-2024, which included the launching of the BRICS Startup Discussion board in January 2025, beneath the management of India, and recognize the launch of its BRICS Startup Information Hub, to foster collaboration and deeper engagement among the many startup ecosystems of the BRICS international locations, as said within the BRICS declaration.BRICS appreciated the efforts made by India for organizing the Capability Constructing Periods on Digital Transformation in BRICS as a side-event and encourage BRICS members to proceed selling aspect occasions. The international locations saluted India's step to strengthen the voice of the African Union throughout its presidency of G20 in 2023. Beneath local weather change initiatives, the BRICS declaration said, “Whereas appreciating the efforts of our international locations to protect uncommon species and noting the excessive vulnerability of massive cats, we be aware of the Republic of India's initiative to create a global Huge Cats Alliance and encourage BRICS international locations to work collectively to the conservation of massive cats.”
This yr, BRICS added Indonesia as a brand new member to the group. Additionally, Republic of Belarus, the Plurinational State of Bolivia, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Republic of Cuba, the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Malaysia, the Kingdom of Thailand, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the Republic of Uganda, and the Republic of Uzbekistan had been added as BRICS accomplice international locations.
