12th BRICS summit

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2020 BRICS summit
12th BRICS summit
Host countryRussia
Date21–23 July 2020 (postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic)
MottoBRICS Partnership for Global Stability, Shared Security and Innovative Growth[1]
CitiesSaint Petersburg
ParticipantsBRICS
Follows11th BRICS summit
Precedes13th BRICS summit
Websitehttps://eng.brics-russia2020.ru/

The 2020 BRICS summit is the planned twelfth annual BRICS summit, an international relations conference to be attended by the heads of state or heads of government of the five member states Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The meeting was originally scheduled to take place in Saint Petersburg from July 21 to 23, 2020,[2] but was postponed indefinitely due to the outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic.[3]

Russia last chaired 7th BRICS summit, Ufa. The 1st Sherpa meeting was held in Saint Petersburg between 11-13 February 2020,[4] under chairmanship of Sergei Ryabkov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and Russian Sherpa for BRICS.

Participating leaders

References

  1. ^ "St Petersburg hosts the 1st Meeting of BRICS Sherpas/Sous-Sherpas | Official website of the Russian BRICS Chairmanship in 2020". eng.brics-russia2020.ru. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  2. ^ "Russia takes over the reins to chair BRICS in 2020". TASS. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  3. ^ "BRICS and the SCO summits postponed". Retrieved 21 July 2020.
  4. ^ "St Petersburg hosts the 1st Meeting of BRICS Sherpas/Sous-Sherpas". Roscongress Building Trust. Retrieved 8 May 2020.