With a focus on the COVID crisis, BRICS or Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa's foreign ministers will meet on Tuesday virtually at 4 pm. Also read BRICS umbrella to increase India, Russia collaboration on artificial intelligenceThe ministers will discuss the finalization of "outcome documents" for the 13th BRICS summit that will take place later this year. This year marks the 15th anniversary of BRICS and the theme is "BRICS@15: Intra BRICS Cooperation for Continuity, Consolidation, and Consensus". BRICS Foreign Ministers started meeting in standalone format in 2017 when the grouping was led by Beijing, and India is hosting the 5th such meeting. All in All, BRICS represents 41% of the global population, 24% of the global GDP, and 16% of global trade.

Source: dna May 31, 2021 15:22 UTC