PM Modi leaves for BRICS summit in South Africa, calls it useful opportunity to identify future areas of cooperation

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PM Modi is visiting the South African metropolis from August 22 to 24 to attend the fifteenth BRICS summit on the invitation of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. It would be the first in-person summit of BRICS comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, since 2019.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday mentioned that the BRICS summit will present a useful opportunity for its members to identify future areas of cooperation and evaluation institutional improvement.

In his departure assertion forward of visiting South Africa to attend the fifteenth BRICS summit, he mentioned BRICS has been pursuing a robust cooperation agenda throughout varied sectors.

“We value that BRICS has become a platform for discussing and deliberating on issues of concern for the entire Global South, including development imperatives and reform of the multilateral system,” he mentioned.

This summit will present a useful opportunity for BRICS to identify future areas of cooperation and evaluation institutional improvement, he mentioned.

Noting that he may also take part in the ‘BRICS – Africa Outreach’ and ‘BRICS Plus Dialogue’ occasions that shall be held as half of the summit actions, Modi mentioned he seemed ahead to interacting with a number of visitor nations which were invited to take part in this occasion.

“I also look forward to holding bilateral meetings with some of the Leaders present in Johannesburg,” he mentioned.

PM Modi is visiting the South African metropolis from August 22 to 24 to attend the fifteenth BRICS summit on the invitation of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.

It would be the first in-person summit of BRICS comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, since 2019.

From South Africa, the prime minister mentioned, he’ll journey to Athens, Greece on August 25 on the invitation of his Greece counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis, he famous that this shall be his first go to to this historical land.

“I have the honour to be the first Indian Prime Minister to visit Greece after 40 years,” he mentioned.

Contacts between our two civilizations stretch again over two millennia and, in fashionable occasions, our ties have been strengthened by shared values of democracy, rule of regulation, and pluralism, he mentioned.

Cooperation in numerous sectors equivalent to commerce and funding, defence, and cultural and people-to-people contacts have been bringing our two nations nearer, he added.

He seemed ahead to visiting Greece and opening a brand new chapter in our multifaceted relationship, Modi mentioned.

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