India Hosts the Expanded BRICS Summit in New Delhi

On 12–13 September 2026, India hosted the eighteenth BRICS Summit at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi under the theme “Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability”. Leaders adopted the BRICS New Delhi Declaration, reaffirming cooperation across political and security affairs, economic and financial issues, and cultural and people-to-people ties while expanding engagement with partner countries and the BRICS Plus format. The summit also provided a major diplomatic stage for India’s engagement with leading powers of the expanded grouping, including China and Russia, and underscored New Delhi’s effort to shape institutions and coalitions associated with the Global South.