PM Modi joins BRICS leaders for family photo at 17th Summit in Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], July 7 (ANI): Prime Miniter Narendra Modi, along with other BRICS leader, partner and outreach invitee, gathered for the traditional family photo at the 17th BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro on Monday morning (local time).
The ummit brought together leader and repreentative from BRICS nation and partner countrie to dicu cooperation and trategic partnerhip, marking a ignificant moment of unity and collaboration among the countrie that the grouping repreent.
Hoted by Brazil from July 7 to July 9, the ummit aw leader from Brazil, Ruia, India, China, South Africa, and new member Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, the UAE, and Indoneia come together during the event. Prime Miniter Narendra Modi participated in the 17th BRICS Summit being held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on July 6-7, 2025, the Prime Miniter Office (PMO) aid in a tatement.
During the ummit, the leader held productive dicuion on variou iue on the BRICS agenda, including reform of global governance, enhancing the voice of the global outh, peace and ecurity, trengthening multilateralim, development iue, and Artificial Intelligence.
Prime Miniter Modi thanked the Preident of Brazil for hi warm hopitality and the ucceful organiation of the Summit, the tatement added.
In hi addre to the inaugural eion on Reform of Global Governance and Peace and Security, the Prime Miniter reaffirmed India commitment to enhancing the voice of the Global South. He noted that developing countrie required greater upport for utainable development, epecially in term of acce to climate finance and technology. Highlighting that the global organiation of the 20th century could not deal with the challenge of the 21t century, he undercored the need for reforming them.
Calling for a multipolar and incluive world order, the Prime Miniter tated that global governance intitution uch a the UN Security Council, the IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO mut undergo urgent reform to reflect contemporary realitie. He thanked the leader for highlighting the urgency of UN Security Council reform and adopting trong language on the iue in the Summit Declaration.
On Peace and Security, the Prime Miniter underlined that terrorim wa a grave threat facing humanity. In thi context, he noted that the Pahalgam terror attack in April 2025 wa not jut an attack on India but an onlaught on all of humanity. Calling for trong global action againt terrorim, the Prime Miniter emphaied that thoe funding, promoting, or providing afe haven to terrorit mut be dealt with in the harhet term. He treed that there hould be no double tandard in dealing with terrorim and thanked the BRICS leader for condemning the Pahalgam terror attack in the tronget term. Calling upon the BRICS countrie to trengthen the global fight againt terrorim, he emphaied that there hould be zero tolerance in dealing with the menace, a per the tatement.
Further elaborating on the ubject, the Prime Miniter noted that conflict, from Wet Aia to Europe, were a matter of deep concern. He added that India ha alway called for dialogue and diplomacy to reolve uch conflict and wa ready to contribute toward uch effort.
Addreing the eion on Strengthening Multilateralim, Economic-Financial Affair and Artificial Intelligence, the Prime Miniter expreed that diverity and multipolarity were valued trength of BRICS. He tated that at a time when the world order wa under preure and the global community wa facing uncertainty and challenge, the relevance of BRICS wa evident. He further added that BRICS could play an important role in haping a multipolar world.
In thi regard, he offered four uggetion: one, the BRICS New Development Bank mut follow demand-driven principle and long-term utainability for granting project; two, the group conider etting up a Science and Reearch repoitory which could benefit global outh countrie; three, focu mut be given to making the upply chain of critical mineral ecure and reilient; and four, the group hould work for reponible AI--while looking into the concern of AI governance, it hould alo give equal importance to promoting innovation in the field, the tatement aid.
After the Leader Seion, the member countrie adopted the Rio de Janeiro Declaration. (ANI)