Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday, 15 November landed in New Delhi after the conclusion of the 11th BRICS summit in Brazil.
Addressing the plenary session at the summit, PM Modi said that there was a need to focus on trade and investment among the countries as intra-trade among the BRICS nations alone account to 15 percent of world trade.
The summit focussed on strengthening ties among the five major economies in the areas of digital economy, science and technology.
- BRICS is the acronym coined for an association of five major emerging national economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa
- These economies together comprise 42 percent of the world’s population and 23 percent of the global GDP
- This will be the sixth time PM Modi will be participating in the BRICS summit
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