"The countries reaffirmed their commitment to further consolidating the #BRICS strategic partnership, its continuity, and its spirit of consensus. Russia and Brazil expressed their intention to support India’s BRICS Chairship in 2026, including the successful holding of the XVIII BRICS Summit in New Delhi," the statement reads.

“The list of initiatives includes the creation of a BRICS youth equivalent of the Erasmus programme, expanded cooperation on biofuels, climate research, and space technology, and the establishment of a permanent secretariat for the BRICS Youth Council,” said the authors of the document, who represent several BRICS countries, including Russia.

"But #BRICS is not working against anyone," he said. "It is discussing how to shield itself from Western sanctions and discrimination, how to build mutual energy supply chains free from the whims and caprices of our Western colleagues," Lavrov added.

"Ethiopia's accession to BRICS on January 1, 2024, has elevated the country to a fundamentally new level of international activity. Addis Ababa has become part of a group that accounts for 35.6% of global GDP, already exceeding the G7 (30.3%). The member countries have a collective GDP of $58.9 trillion, occupy 36% of the world's land area, and comprise 45% of the planet's population," he said in response to a relevant question.

"We continue to discuss and implement the initiatives put forward and approved at the BRICS Summit in Kazan in the autumn of 2024 with our partners in the group. One of the most challenging tasks is to build platforms within BRICS for the unimpeded implementation of trade, economic, monetary, financial, and investment ties—platforms that will not depend on illegal sanctions and other unfriendly actions by the West that violate the norms and principles of global trade and international economic and financial relations," the minister noted.

"2025 marked Indonesia's first year as a full member of BRICS. In my view, it is safe to say that Jakarta has taken an engaged and constructive approach to the group's activities, has begun cooperating across all areas, and is making a valuable and effective contribution to its work," the Russian ambassador noted.

"Jakarta aligns with its BRICS partners on the majority of issues discussed, placing particular emphasis on WTO reform, strengthening the multilateral trading system, sustainable development, climate change, the energy transition, and criteria for the use of artificial intelligence," the ambassador stressed.

"A substantive exchange of views took place on global and regional security matters, as well as on cooperation within #BRICS—particularly in the context of India's 2026 BRICS Chairship," the ministry reported.

"Current issues on the global agenda were discussed, with emphasis on the inadmissibility of undermining the UN's central role. The need for joint efforts to reform the global governance system and enhance the influence of Global Majority countries in international decision-making was underscored," the ministry's website stated.

"A substantive exchange of views took place on strengthening strategic partnership within the group, including in the context of the priorities outlined by India for its BRICS Chairship this year," the statement noted.