Xi Jinping attends the first phase of the 18th BRICS Leaders' Meeting and delivers a speech
BRICS Leaders' Meeting: Xi Jinping calls for deepening cooperation and promoting more just global governance Seize the new opportunities of a “greater BRICS,” with a focus on multilateralism, peace and stability, and exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations
On the afternoon of September 12 local time, Chinese President Xi Jinping attended the first session of the 18th BRICS Leaders' Meeting in New Delhi and delivered a speech titled "Shouldering Our Responsibilities of the Times and Acting as Pioneering Force."
Xi said that BRICS cooperation has gone through 20 years and has become an important platform for cooperation among emerging markets and developing countries, and has also entered a new stage of highquality development of "Greater BRICS cooperation." He pointed out that, amid the current complex and changing international situation, BRICS countries should uphold multilateralism and promote the international order toward a more just and reasonable direction.
In the speech, Xi put forward four proposals: promoting innovative development, maintaining peace and stability, fostering mutual learning among civilizations, and reforming and improving global governance. He also said that China will assume the BRICS chairmanship next year and is willing to work with all parties to continue advancing new progress in BRICS cooperation. The leaders attending the meeting then exchanged views on BRICS cooperation and international and regional issues, and adopted the New Delhi Declaration of the 18th BRICS Leaders' Meeting.