BRICS Leaders Adopt Expansive New Delhi Declaration
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Leaders from an 11 nation bloc met in New Delhi for the 18th BRICS Summit, resulting in the adoption of the New Delhi Declaration titled Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability. The document is the most expansive produced by the bloc, spanning 140 points. It calls for United Nations Security Council reform, challenges unilateral sanctions, and targets cooperation on artificial intelligence and critical minerals. The declaration also promotes trade settlement in local currencies and addresses food security, health, and disaster response. On energy, the text balances calls for renewables with a recognition of fossil fuels.
The summit included the original five members, 2023 entrants, and partner states. The gathering also featured the attendance of the UN Secretary General, the WTO Director General, and the WHO chief. While the bloc was assertive on trade and sanctions, it avoided detailed focus on the Middle East. For India, the host nation, a key outcome was securing an explicit condemnation of the Pahalgam terrorist attack.
Outlets with different political leans framed the summit's outcomes differently. A center left perspective described the event as a procedural success that lacked substantive consensus, characterizing the declaration as a bite without teeth because it avoided the Middle East crisis. Conversely, a center right perspective framed the summit as a strategic hedge against US dollar dominance, emphasizing the bloc's effort to build parallel machinery and increase its voice within global institutions.
How each side framed it
- Centre-left
- Framed the summit as a diplomatic feat in terms of procedure but a failure in substance due to the avoidance of the Middle East conflict.
- Centre-right
- Framed the summit as a strategic move by the Global South to hedge against US influence and create alternative global machinery.
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