NEW DELHI, July 26 (Xinhua) -- India held Tuesday as chair of the BRICS group a policy planning dialogue session in the eastern Indian city of Patna, said officials.
The session were attended by the representatives of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, said officials at the Ministry of External Affairs.
This is the first time that India is hosting an official foreign policy related engagement with the themes being Building Responsive, Inclusive and Collective Solutions, said the officials.
India said its objective during its BRICS chairmanship is to further consolidate Intra-BRICS co-operation by adopting a five-pronged-approach: institution building to further deepen and sustain co-operation, implementation of the decision of previous summits at Fortaleza and Ufa, integrating synergies among the existing cooperation mechanism, innovation of new cooperation mechanisms and continuation of mutually agreed existing BRICS cooperation mechanism, the local daily The Pioneer quoted an official of the foreign ministry as saying.
