From October 15 to 16, the eighth annual BRICS summit will be held in Goa. The core themes for the summit under the India presidency will be to build responsive, inclusive, and collective solutions. These solutions will include institution building, implementation of decisions from previous summits, integrating existing cooperation mechanisms, innovation of new cooperation mechanisms and continuing existing BRICS cooperation mechanisms.
The summit will have a special emphasis on Asia, with leaders from Afghanistan and Maldives invited. Other items on the agenda will include strengthening the BRICS-G20 relationship, the contribution of the BRICS to global growth, and the Syria peace process.
Prime Minister Modi is also expected to conduct separate bilateral talks with President Xi Jinping and Putin.