India hosts the BRICS summit this weekend in New Delhi, with the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East highlighted on the agenda. The organization faces the challenge of achieving a balance among its members, since the expansion of the group increases its influence but complicates its cohesion.
The leaders will have difficulties signing a joint declaration that pleases both Iran and the United Arab Emirates, represented by Abu Dhabi. This will be the first visit to India of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.
As relevant as the position on the Middle East are the bilateral meetings that the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, will hold with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, and Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. Modi, leader of an ultranationalist government, said in a message in Sanskrit that "one must only engage in debate and friendship with the virtuous, and nothing with the non-virtuous," without clarifying who he was referring to.
