[CA] BRICS 2019

·       @ Brasilia, Brazil

·       From Nov 13 -1 4, 2019

·       Theme: "Economic Growth for an Innovative Future"

This will be the sixth time that Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi will be participating at the BRICS summit. His first BRICS summit was at Fortaleza in Brazil in 2014.

BRICS brings together five major emerging economies comprising 42 percent of the world's population, having 23 percent of the global GDP and around 17 percent of the share and world trade.

 BRICS cooperation has two pillars including consultations on issues of mutual interest through meeting of leaders and ministers as well as cooperation through meeting of senior officials in a number of areas including trade, finance, health, education, science and technology, agriculture, communications IT etc.