Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined leaders of BRICS member and partner countries, outreach invitees and international organisations for a family photograph at the 18th BRICS Summit on Sunday.
PM Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim attended the gathering.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and World Health Organisation Secretary-General Antonio Guterres joined several other leaders for the photograph at Bharat Mandapam.
Earlier, Prime Minister Modi welcomed leaders of the expanded BRICS grouping as they arrived for the summit’s second day.
On Saturday, BRICS nations adopted the New Delhi Declaration, praising India for hosting the Outreach and BRICS Plus Dialogue segment.
The declaration said India’s chairship had provided ‘new impetus’ to international cooperation and solidarity.
Leaders reaffirmed their commitment to mutual respect, sovereign equality, solidarity, democracy, openness, inclusiveness, collaboration and consensus.
The grouping reached consensus on a joint statement on the summit’s opening day.
The development marked a ‘major diplomatic breakthrough’ amid sharply differing geopolitical positions among member countries.
The declaration builds on two decades of BRICS cooperation. It commits members to deeper collaboration across political and security, economic and financial, and cultural and people-to-people pillars.
The bloc seeks to strengthen its strategic partnership while promoting peace, a fairer international order, multilateral reform, sustainable development and inclusive growth.
On Saturday evening, Prime Minister Modi hosted a gala dinner for BRICS leaders at Bharat Mandapam.
Leaders participated in a joint tree plantation drive and visited the Bharat Innovates Exposition at the venue.
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