BRICS 10 nations unite against war, tariffs and US sanctions
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The BRICS leaders' summit in New Delhi last weekend closed with a joint statement aimed at the war in the Middle East as well as US tariff policy and sanctions measures. The 45-page statement from the ten member countries did not name the United States or President Donald Trump directly, but its content clearly targeted US policy, calling on parties to the Middle East conflict to exercise maximum restraint and condemning deliberate attacks on civilian infrastructure and peaceful nuclear sites. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi stressed the group's cooperation even though each nation holds different views, saying trust in BRICS among Global South countries continues to grow. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian declared that Iran will not surrender. Russian President Vladimir Putin used the platform for bilateral talks with Modi and spoke with Xi Jinping on the sidelines, just two weeks after the three leaders met at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Kyrgyzstan. Modi and Xi questioned Putin in detail about efforts to end the conflict in Ukraine and offered help in finding a way out. Xi's attendance also marked his first visit to India in seven years and signalled a cautious revival of China-India relations after a deadly 2020 border clash. Xi said China and India are partners, not rivals, and proposed creating an open-source artificial intelligence special zone for BRICS to support the development of large language models.
