New Delhi, May 21 (IANS) India’s 2026 presidency of BRICS arrives at a moment of significant geopolitical and geo-economic turbulence, creating both a challenge and an opportunity for the country to help shape a more stable, inclusive, and pragmatic international order, senior representatives from government and industry said here on Thursday.Chintan Research Foundation (CRF) convened a closed-door roundtable, titled “BRICS Rising: India’s Strategic Presidency” in the national capital.Th…
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New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) China’s Ambassador to India, Xu Feihong on Friday congratulated India for successfully hosting the BRICS Foreign Ministers’ Meeting. He stated that BRICS Chair’s statement and outcome document demonstrate broad consensus on international and regional issues, the future development of BRICS and the reform of global governance and the multilateral system. In a post on X, Xu Feihong stated, “Congratulations to India on successfully hosting the BRICS FMM. In the face of a co…
New Delhi, May 14 (IANS) Highlighting the fragile security environment in West Asia, External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar on Thursday said that persistent tensions in the region, along with threats to shipping routes and energy infrastructure, remain a matter of global concern.Delivering the national statement at the BRICS Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in New Delhi under India’s 2026 chairship, the EAM said, “The conflict in West Asia merits particular attention. Continuing tensions, risks…
Washington, May 8 (IANS) Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said that he urged US President Donald Trump to pursue dialogue with Iran and handed him a copy of a 2010 nuclear agreement brokered by Brazil and Turkey, as the two leaders concluded a closed-door White House meeting focused on trade, tariffs and global conflicts.Speaking later at the Brazilian Embassy in Washington on Thursday, Lula said he told Trump that “dialogue” was more effective than war and warned that military …
New Delhi, March 26 (IANS) External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar will visit Abbaye des Vaux-de-Cernay in France from Thursday to Friday to take part in the G7 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (FMM) with partner countries, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said in an official statement. According to the MEA, EAM Jaishankar will attend the meeting at the invitation of Jean-Noel Barrot, France’s Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs. On the sidelines of the meeting, he is also expected…
New Delhi/Ottawa, Feb 12 (IANS) India and Canada are not linked by geography or alliance structures but by economic complementarity and shared global governance interests – ties that have historically endured, a report said on Thursday. If current trends persist, India–Canada relations over the next decade are likely to be driven less by political turbulence and more by investment flows, energy integration, supply chain partnerships and deeper people-to-people ties, former diplomat Sanjay Kuma…
United Nations, Jan 27 (IANS) India has expressed concern over the emergence of platforms “parallel” to the United Nations, seeking to take on peace and security roles while the Security Council is paralysed.”Security conversations and discussions have moved on to parallel plurilateral frameworks, some even involving private sector actors to bring about outcomes on peace and security outside the United Nations,” India’s Permanent Representative P. Harish cautioned on Monday, pressing the case …
New Delhi, Jan 10 (IANS) India’s primary challenge lies in balancing its foreign policy priorities between the US and BRICS, particularly as several members of the bloc are under increasing scrutiny from Washington. While India views BRICS as a means to uphold the multilateral world order, other members, such as Russia and China, consider it a geostrategic tool to counterbalance the USA, a report detailed on Friday. According to a report in the India Narrative, India’s current US policy, driven …
New Delhi, Jan 6 (IANS) A BRICS with India at the helm is more equipped to deal with the complexities of charting out a new trade order than a more dominant and assertive China from the point of view of an antagonistic US, observed an article on the website of Russia’s international news television network.“India’s major task is to steer the economic and political mandate of a bloc of such gigantic proportions. It should, at the same time, hope to balance the geopolitical complexities of d…