2021 BRICS summit 13th BRICS summit | ||
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Motto | BRICS @ 15: Intra-BRICS Cooperation for Continuity, Consolidation and Consensus. [2] | |
Cities | New Delhi | |
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Website | brics2021 | |
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The 2021 BRICS summit is the thirteenth annual BRICS summit, an international relations conference attended by the heads of state or heads of government of the five member states Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. It was the third time that India hosted the BRICS Summit after 2012 and 2016. [3] The summit was hosted virtually by video conference. The summit was taken virtually from New Delhi, India.
India hosted the first meeting of BRICS finance and central bank deputies through video conference. The meeting was co-chaired by Michael Patra, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India and Tarun Bajaj, Secretary Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance, India. [4]
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