This is his fourth meeting with Xi, Modi conveyed India’s disappointment and “anger among the people” at Beijing’s blocking of Delhi’s demand at the United Nations for action against Pakistan over its release of Mumbai attacks mastermind and Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi. Iran, India, and Pakistan are observer participants of the SCO.
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Thanks to joint efforts of both sides, the agreements reached then are now being translated into steady progress in bilateral cooperation in such areas as parliamentary exchanges, railway, industrial parks and smart cities, Xi said.
Modi also proposed 10 steps – “Das Kadam” – for the future of BRICS.
The Summit is being attended by heads of states of all the five BRICS nations, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The meeting came before the seventh summit of Brics, an emerging-market bloc that consists of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, and the 15th Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit.
TASHKENT: Holding that popularity of language was linked with financial might of any country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said that importance of Hindi was set to increase with India marching rapidly towards economic prosperity.
UFA, Russia (AP) – Welcoming China’s leader to two summits in a Russian city, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Russia and China can overcome their countries’ difficulties by working together.
“We are a clean sheet of paper, so I will get to Shanghai this week, (or) next week and we will sequence it”, K.V. Kamath said when asked on timing for getting ratings cleared.
“The BRICS Summit in Ufa is probably the most important and nerve-racking than even the year of its launch”, Victoria V. Panova, the Strategy Planning adviser at the National Committee on BRICS Research, told UPI.
Russia, India, and Brazil will each contribute $18 billion and South Africa $5 billion, Russia’s Central Bank said Tuesday.
Russia’s economy, battered by the punitive measures from the West and a fall in global oil prices, has been struggling to attract investment and is sliding toward recession, with gross domestic product expected to decline by more than 3 percent.
“The economic and trade cooperation among BRICS nations have entered a critical and important period”.
A close relationship with Russian Federation is also of strategic importance to India given increasingly warm relations between Pakistan and China. Both the countries are announced to be made permanent members of the SCO.
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“We can tap our strengths like skill development”, he said, while pitching for a framework for development.
