Minister of external things S. Jaishankar. File | Photo Credit: Reuters
The Minister of the External Affairs S. Jaishankar will represent India at the BRICS Nations Virtual Summit on Monday (September 7, 2025), the Ministry of External Affairs said on Friday (September 5, 2025) and announced Indian participation in the meeting convened by Brazilian President Lula Da Silva
The summit, which is tied to the US government, comes after a visit to the Prime Minister Narendry Modi in China at the SCO Summit and an interview with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, criticized by US officials.
Brazilian officials did not confirm how many of the 11-member bricks grouping of developing economies participate in the summit and at what level. Shortly after the US tariffs were stored on August 6.
On Friday, the Kremlin spokesman confirmed that Mr. Putin would participate in the summit and the sources said they were expecting further confirmation at the weekend.
“The (Indian) party will be the Minister of External Affairs (S. Jaishankar) who will participate in it,” said Mea spokesman Randhir Jaiswal as he asked about a weekly briefing.
“This BRICS summit is at the level of the leaders,” he added, but he did not explain why Mr. Modi would not participate in the meeting.
India is another chairman of the BRICS Group and will host the peak of countries, including Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa and the new members of Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
The Brazilian Foreign Ministry has not yet reported a specific agenda of the meeting that will be held on Monday. However, local media said the summit would discuss the impact of US tariffs on global trade and measures to strengthen multilateralism in order to face the effects of unilateral economic measures.
The US has deposited 50% of tariffs on goods from Brazil, such as India, two countries with the highest fees around the world. China and South Africa also face 30% of tariffs and Indonesian goods are valuable to 19%, except for its most important agricultural exports such as palm oil, cocoa and rubber. All other BRICS nations, including Russia and Iran, which are among the most sanctioned countries, are at the lowest ranks of 10% of tariffs.
In a number of statements, the US administration stated that in addition to the bilateral business deficit and customs barriers stored by other countries, it has selected high tariffs for many reasons. The US slapped sanctions on India for imports of Russian oil, in Brazil for the court against the former president and friend of US President Donald Trump Jaira Bolsonar, in South Africa for her ground law, which Mr. Trump claims to be “discriminatory” for white African farmers.
In July, Mr. Trump also threatened 10% of other BRICS tariffs as a whole if they were harmonized with “anti -American policy of Bric”. In addition, Lindsey Graham, an American Republican congressman close to Mr. Trump, introduced a sanctioning Russian law at the US Congress of the Russian law 2025, which would try to select 500% of the BRICS, including Brazil in India in China if they continue to buy Russian energy exports.
Published – September 2025 20:16
