Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday met Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi, South African Foreign Minister Ronald Lamola and Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira and other Foreign Ministers who are attending the BRICS Foreign Ministers’ meeting in New Delhi.
India is hosting the key BRICS meeting on Thursday and Friday at Bharat Mandapam in the national capital, where discussions will cover global and regional issues of mutual interest. The high-level gathering is chaired by External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar.
The meetings between the visiting Foreign Ministers and PM Modi took place on the sidelines of the two-day BRICS Foreign Ministers’ meeting which commenced in New Delhi today.
PM Modi also joined the visiting Foreign ministers and delegates for the official BRICS family photo, which brought together representatives of member countries and partner nations participating in the high-level diplomatic engagement.
Earlier in the day, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar welcomed Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at Bharat Mandapam for the BRICS Foreign Ministers’ meeting, marking a key diplomatic engagement.
The EAM also welcomed other Foreign Ministers and representatives from the member and observer nations to the venue in the national capital ahead of the much-anticipated meeting.
On Friday, BRICS members and partner countries will participate in a session themed ‘BRICS at 20: Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability’. This will be followed by a session on reforming global governance and the multilateral system.
The BRICS Foreign Ministers held their last meeting on the margins of the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly on 26 September 2025. The meeting was chaired by India in its capacity as the incoming chair for BRICS 2026.
India holds the BRICS chair in 2026 guided by the theme of ‘Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability’, reflecting a people-centric and humanity-first approach articulated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the 17th BRICS Summit held in Rio de Janeiro in 2025.
BRIC was formalised at the first meeting of BRIC Foreign Ministers on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York in 2006.
The inaugural BRIC Summit was convened in Yekaterinburg, Russia, in 2009. It was agreed to expand BRIC into BRICS with the inclusion of South Africa at the BRIC Foreign Ministers’ meeting in New York in 2010. South Africa attended the third BRICS Summit in 2011.