New Delhi, September 13, 2026 (Yes Punjab News)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday joined leaders of BRICS member and partner countries, outreach invitees and heads of international organisations for a family photo on the second day of the 18th BRICS Summit at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi.
Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and World Health Organisation Secretary-General Antonio Guterres were among the leaders who posed for the group photograph.
Earlier in the day, Modi welcomed leaders of the expanded BRICS grouping as they arrived at Bharat Mandapam for the second day of the summit.
The development came a day after BRICS nations adopted the ‘New Delhi Declaration’, which commended India for hosting the Outreach/BRICS Plus Dialogue segment of the summit and said India’s chairship had provided “new impetus” to strengthening international cooperation and solidarity.
The 18th BRICS Summit is being held under the theme ‘Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability’. Leaders reaffirmed their commitment to the BRICS spirit of mutual respect and understanding, sovereign equality, solidarity, democracy, openness, inclusiveness, collaboration and consensus.
The adoption of a joint statement on the first day of the summit was described as a “major diplomatic breakthrough”, given the sharply divergent geopolitical positions among several participating countries.
The New Delhi Declaration said that, building on two decades of BRICS cooperation, member countries would strengthen collaboration under three pillars — political and security, economic and financial, and cultural and people-to-people cooperation.
The declaration also emphasised strengthening the strategic partnership for the benefit of people through the promotion of peace, a more representative and fairer international order, a reinvigorated and reformed multilateral system, sustainable development and inclusive growth.
On Saturday evening, the visiting leaders attended a gala dinner hosted by Modi for BRICS leaders at Bharat Mandapam.
Leaders of BRICS member countries also participated in a joint tree plantation drive and visited the Bharat Innovates Exposition at the venue.
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