PM Modi to attend BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro
PM Modi to attend BRICS Summit in
Rio de Janeiro 
PM Modi will be attending the BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro next month.
The PM Modi government is not averse to Moscow’s proposal to restart Russia-India-China meetings, and the trilateral mechanism may resume on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro early next month.
President Xi Jinping of China and President Vladimir Putin of Russia are also likely to attend the BRICS summit to be hosted by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil on July 6 and 7. Moscow is keen to use the hold the RIC (Russia-India-China) summit after a hiatus of six years.
New Delhi, however, is of the view that External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar should first hold a meeting with his Chinese and Russian counterparts — Wang Yi and Sergey Lavrov, respectively — in Rio de Janeiro first to set the stage for a summit later.
News Edit KV Raman
