By Shishir Prashant 
PrashantNews
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said India is fully prepared to host the 18th BRICS Summit on September 12 and 13 at New Delhi where Russian and Chinese leaders Valimir Putin and Xi Jinping would deliberate on global issues and ways to strengthen cooperation.
The summit will be held at Bharat Mandapam as India hosts the grouping’s presidency for 2026. This year’s chairship is guided by the theme “Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability”, with a focus on practical and development-oriented cooperation.
The summit comes at a time of heightened geopolitical tensions, with the grouping expected to discuss global and regional developments, alongside issues such as food and energy security, health, disaster resilience, critical supply chains, trade, investment and technology cooperation.
Modi is also expected to hold bilateral meetings with visiting leaders on the sidelines of the summit. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping would visit India for the summit, officials said.
The summit will also provide an opportunity for India to push greater cooperation among BRICS countries on cross-border payments. New Delhi is advocating integration of central bank digital currencies of member countries to make international transactions faster and easier, although political and technical hurdles remain.
Elaborate security and civic arrangements have been put in place in the national capital. Around 30,000 security personnel are being deployed, while authorities have undertaken traffic management, road repairs, beautification and other measures along routes to be used by visiting leaders.
The two-day summit will conclude with discussions among leaders on strengthening multilateral cooperation and enhancing the resilience of BRICS amid an increasingly fragmented global order.
BRICS is an international organization currently comprising ten countries: Brazil, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates. Its conceptual origins were articulated by Russian foreign minister Yevgeny Primakov in 1998, and can be traced to informal forums and dialogue groups such as RIC (Russia, India, and China) and IBSA (India, Brazil, and South Africa)