BRICS Summit 2022: PM Narendra Modi to attend virtual meet with Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin

14th BRICS Summit: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will join Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin at a virtual summit of the five-nation grouping BRICS. The summit is scheduled for June 23-24. 

PM Modi is set to attend the Virtual BRICS Summit alongside Russian President Vladir Putin, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.

This week that is taking place in the backdrop of the geopolitical turmoil triggered by the Russian attack on Ukraine.

Earlier, the Indian Ambassador to China Pradeep Kumar Rawat had met Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi ahead of Thursday's virtual BRICS summit hosted by President Xi Jinping in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi is taking part.

That was Rawat's first meeting with Wang after he took charge as India's new envoy to Beijing in March.

The meeting, which took place on Wednesday, assumed significance as it came ahead of the 14th BRICS summit.

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The meeting stood significant as it took place amidst the chill in bilateral ties over the two-year military standoff in eastern Ladakh.

As a result of military-level talks, the two sides completed the disengagement process last year on the north and south banks of the Pangong lake and in the Gogra area. India has been consistently maintaining that peace and tranquillity along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) are key to the overall development of the bilateral ties.

China holds this year's chair of the five-member bloc comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

On Wednesday, Xi and Modi along with other heads of the BRICS countries addressed the BRICS Business Forum.

Wang visited India in March during which he held talks with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval. (With PTI sources)