Beginning on Oct. 22, the first day of the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russian President Vladimir Putin has scheduled several bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the summit with visiting heads of state and government, TASS reports, quoting presidential aide Yuri Ushakov. On the agenda are Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. There are 36 countries attending the BRICS summit, 22 of them represented by heads of state or government.
Meetings set for Oct. 22 include Dilma Rousseff, president of the BRICS New Development Bank, who was President of Brazil when the BRICS agreed to found the bank at the 2014 Fortaleza BRICS summit. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and Xi Jinping will also meet Putin on that day. Yushakov reported that “several working meetings are due on the second day. After the narrow and extended meetings, there will be a conversation between our President and the President of the Republic of Iran Masoud Pezeshkian and the President of the Republic of Türkiye Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Then Putin will meet with Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali.”
