BRICS - A Model For Cooperation Between Emerging Markets, Developing Countries: China

"In the face of major changes and a global pandemic unseen in a century, BRICS should work to protect people's health, uphold international order, contribute to global development and world peace," Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said.

China said on Wednesday that the BRICS is a model for cooperation between emerging markets and developing countries and it upholds the UN centred international system and multilateralism, a day after India hosted a virtual meeting of the foreign ministers of the five-nation bloc. The meeting hosted by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday was attended by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Minister of International Relations of South Africa Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor and Brazilian Foreign Minister Carlos Alberto Franco. Answering questions on the outcome of the meeting, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told a media briefing that the conference discussed COVID-19, multilateralism and hot spot issues and reached broad consensus. He said Wang Yi pointed out at the meeting that "BRICS represents a prototype of cooperation between emerging markets and developing nations".