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Ongoing conflicts, economical uncertainties and challenges successful trade, exertion are shaping planetary landscape, External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar said successful his opening remarks astatine the BRICS Foreign Ministers Summit that began connected Thursday (May 14, 2026).
India is hosting the BRICS Foreign Ministers’ Meeting connected May 14 and 15, 2026, which volition beryllium chaired by External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar.
“The struggle successful West Asia merits peculiar attention. Continuing tensions, risks to maritime traffic, and disruptions to vigor infrastructure item the fragility of the situation. Safe and unimpeded maritime flows done planetary waterways, including the Strait of Hormuz and Red Sea, stay captious for planetary economical well-being,” Mr. Jaishankar noted.
“The wider portion besides gives emergence to superior concern. The struggle successful Gaza has sedate humanitarian implications. A sustained ceasefire, humanitarian access, and a credible pathway towards a durable and peaceful solution stay essential. India supports a two-state solution wherever the Palestine contented is concerned,” helium added.
“We indispensable besides code the expanding edifice to unilateral coercive measures and sanctions inconsistent with planetary instrumentality and the UN Charter. Such measures disproportionately impact processing countries. These unjustifiable measures cannot substitute dialogue, nor tin unit regenerate diplomacy,” said Mr. Jaishankar.
Mr. Jaishankar, arsenic the Chair, thanked the delegation for their beingness and for the continued committedness to strengthening practice wrong the BRICS framework. “All of america stay successful adjacent and regular interaction done bilateral and multilateral engagements. Gathering unneurotic for the BRICS gathering is, however, a peculiar occasion. It allows america to speech perspectives and encourages america to make convergences. And successful this analyzable and uncertain world, that is of ever greater importance,” helium added.
He further said “India’s Chairmanship appreciates your enactment which has contributed to the dependable advancement of our work. To date, we person organized implicit 80 BRICS meetings, with progressive information from each members. These engagements person strengthened practice and precocious dialog crossed sectors. We look guardant to gathering connected this momentum.”
The External Affairs Minister said “Promoting a much inclusive and collaborative BRICS framework, we, arsenic Chair, person been engaging with Partner countries arsenic well. We person besides taken guardant discussions connected organization development, including the integration of caller members done a stocktake and updation of existing mechanisms. It is indispensable for the creaseless advancement of BRICS that aboriginal members afloat admit and subscribe to the BRICS’ statement connected assorted important issues.”
Mr. Jaishankar said bid and information issues stay cardinal to planetary order. “We conscionable astatine a clip of sizeable flux successful planetary relations. Ongoing conflicts, economical uncertainties and challenges successful trade, exertion are shaping planetary landscape,” helium noted.
Mr. Jaishankar said that the discussions are an accidental to bespeak connected planetary and determination developments and caller conflicts lone underline value of dialog and diplomacy.
“Economic resilience is besides key. Reliable proviso chains and diversified markets are its indispensable components. We indispensable absorption connected both. Climate alteration remains a pressing concern. Our discussions indispensable beforehand sustainable improvement portion upholding the principles of equity and communal but differentiated responsibilities. Technological advancements are reshaping the planetary landscape. It tin beryllium leveraged for bully governance and inclusive growth,” Mr. Jaishankar noted.
“As Chair, I volition facilitate an unfastened and constructive exchange. I promote each delegations to stock their perspectives successful that spirit. Your inputs volition assistance usher our discussions and lend to meaningful outcomes. I erstwhile again invited you each and look guardant to a productive discussion,” helium condluded.
