Johannesburg, Aug 23 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday attended the BRICS Leaders Retreat and deliberated on international developments with different leaders of the five-member bloc.

Modi arrived right here on Tuesday on a four-day go to to South Africa and Greece. In South Africa, he’ll attend the fifteenth BRICS Summit in Johannesburg from August 22-24 on the invitation of the nation’s President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa.

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This is the primary in-person BRICS Summit after three consecutive years of digital conferences due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

“Reinforcing the intra-BRICS bonds! PM @narendramodi arrives at the Summer Place to participate in the BRICS Leaders Retreat. Warmly greeted by the host, President @CyrilRamaphosa of South Africa,” Ministry of External Affairs spokesman Arindam Bagchi stated in a put up on X, previously Twitter.

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“PM, along with other BRICS leaders will deliberate on global developments and leveraging the BRICS platform to find solutions to global challenges,” he stated.

Earlier, the prime minister spoke on the BRICS Business Forum Leaders’ Dialogue.

He considered a mannequin of the under-construction Swaminarayan Temple right here earlier than collaborating within the BRICS Business Forum Leaders’ Dialogue.

“BRICS Business Forum gave me an opportunity to highlight India’s growth trajectory and the steps taken to boost ‘Ease of Doing Business’ and public service delivery. Also emphasised on India’s strides in digital payments, infrastructure creation, the world of StartUps and more.

“India believes in ‘Make in India, Make for the World.’ Over the previous few years we’ve got made immense strides in IT, semiconductors and different such futuristic sectors. Our financial imaginative and prescient additionally locations immense significance on empowerment of girls,” Modi posted on X.

BRICS grouping comprises Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

Meanwhile, media reports from Johannesburg said Chinese President Xi Jinping failed to show up at the BRICS Business Forum on Tuesday in South Africa, where he was expected to deliver a speech alongside his counterparts.

In his place, Commerce Minister Wang Wentao read the speech that criticised the US over its tendency toward “hegemony”.

Xi, in the speech read by Wang at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, said the US tended to fight countries that threaten its dominance in global affairs and financial markets.

The speech said that every country has a right to development and that people should have the freedom to pursue a happy life.

But one country is “obsessed with maintaining hegemony, has gone out of its way to cripple the emerging markets and developing countries”, he said in a veiled swipe at the US.

“Whoever develops first becomes their target of containment. Whoever is catching up becomes its target of obstruction,” Xi added.

Although he had arrived in South Africa on Monday evening, Xi skipped the business forum and no explanation was given, the report said.

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