Brazilian media report today that the extraordinary summit of BRICS leaders which President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been organizing in response to President Donald Trump’s tariff warfare against numerous nations, is now set, in principle, for next Monday, Sept. 8. The summit of the ten full BRICS members will take place virtually. Where certain leaders have conflicts of agenda, some nations may be represented at a lower level than head of state, it is being reported.
No official announcement has been made, but Brazil’s Foreign Ministry, Itamaraty, officials have told multiple press that the central theme of the summit will be the need to defend multilateralism—that is, against the attempts to continue ruling the world through unipolar dictates. Besides trade, Gaza and Ukraine are being reported as specifically on the agenda, as well as possible coordination of BRICS diplomacy in upcoming multilateral meetings such as the UN General Assembly, the G20 summit in South Africa, and the COP30 meeting in Brazil in November. O Globo reported, citing anonymous government sources, that “ways to expand trade between the bloc’s members will be discussed, including the use of local currencies.”
