China and India are arranging a bilateral meeting between President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said Mao Ning, a spokesperson for China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at a regular press briefing on Friday.
President Xi will attend the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, India, from Saturday to Sunday at the invitation of Modi, the foreign ministry announced on Thursday.
"China and India are arranging a bilateral meeting between President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This will mark the third consecutive annual meeting between the leaders, following their previous meetings in Kazan and Tianjin. China is ready to work with India to follow the strategic guidance of the two leaders, approach China-India relations from a strategic and long-term perspective, strengthen communication, enhance cooperation, and properly handle differences, and be friends of good-neighborliness and partners for mutual achievement," Mao said.
China, India arranging Xi-Modi meeting: spokesperson
China, India arranging Xi-Modi meeting: spokesperson
India is expected to advance the Global South agenda at the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi on Saturday and Sunday, said a senior executive editor with Indian broadcaster NewsX World in an interview with China Global Television Network (CGTN).
NewsX World Senior Executive Editor Megha Sharma said that building economic resilience is one of the priorities of India in implementing the chairmanship of BRICS this year.
The theme of the forthcoming BRICS Summit is "Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability."
"Building for resilience and innovation, for cooperation and sustainability, to push forward again the Global South agenda. Talking about innovation, we are talking about digital public infrastructure. This is something that India has pushed successively," said Sharma.
She said successful outcomes from the Summit could include progress in counter-terrorism cooperation and digital infrastructure construction.
"Counter-terrorism cooperation. There have been a lot of terrorist attacks that have taken place. Building digital infrastructure, digitally public infrastructure, whether it is about UPI (Unified Payment Interface) that India has been advocating and successfully implementing in countries in the subcontinent, in Southeast Asia and Africa as well," said Sharma.
Launched in 2009, BRICS has grown to 11 full member states and 10 partner countries representing major emerging markets and developing economies across the globe.
18th BRICS Summit to advance Global South agenda: news editor
