India's BRICS Chairship 2026
India assumed the BRICS Chairship in January 2026 under the theme "Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability" — with the acronym mirroring BRICS. Key agenda priorities include economic resilience and supply chain restructuring, digital public infrastructure and AI cooperation, climate action and green finance, multilateral reform including reform of international financial institutions, and MSME cooperation under the BRICS Partnership on New Industrial Revolution (PartNIR).
- India holds the Chairship for the fourth time (2012, 2016, 2021, 2026).
- 18th BRICS Summit: September 12–13, 2026, New Delhi.
- Theme acronym aligns with "BRICS": Building, Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation, Sustainability.
- First India-hosted summit under the expanded 10-member BRICS.
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