The Foreign Ministers are also likely to delve into ways to enhance the intra-BRICS cooperation, especially people-to-people cooperation. Brazilian Foreign Minister Carlos Alberto Franco is also likely to attend the virtual meeting. The theme and approach for India’s BRICS chairship is “BRICS@15: Intra BRICS Cooperation for Continuity, Consolidation and Consensus”. The foreign ministers of the bloc first met in 2006 and the first BRICS summit was held in 2009. It is learnt that 76 projects worth over $28 billion have so far been approved by the NDB in BRICS countries.

Source: The Hindu May 31, 2021 15:10 UTC