The BRICS Ministers of Foreign Affairs/International Relations will meet again as per the established BRICS practice on the margins of UNGA 72 in NY in September 2017. "They condemn terrorism in all its forms and manifestations wherever committed and by whomsoever", the note says.
Responding to a question, he said as to the proposal of global counter-terrorism efforts under the coordination of the UN, China agreed with it and adopted a positive attitude.
Earlier, India, represented by Minister of State for External Affairs V.K. Singh, said the grouping needed to cooperate on counter-terror measures.
"They [the BRICS countries] reaffirm solidarity and resolve in the fight against terrorism, call upon the global community to establish a genuinely broad worldwide counter-terrorism coalition and support the United Nations' central coordinating role in the global counter-terrorism cooperation", the document says.
"On behalf of India, I pointed out that terrorism remains the most potent global menace and threatens global peace", Singh said at a press conference afterwards.
"So the BRICS Plus concept proposed by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi means that in future development, China will enhance our cooperation with other developing countries, enhance our interaction with them, so that BRICS cooperation can better reflect the collective position on aspiration of developing countries".
"We did bring out that it threatens global peace and terrorists can not be differentiated by calling them good or bad", he added, without directly referring to China's efforts to block efforts by India, US and other countries to bring about a United Nations ban on Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) leader Masood Azhar for his involvement in Pathankot terror attack. "With colleagues today, including Indian colleagues, China shares the same position".
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BRICS is a group of emerging economies Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa with China as the rotating host this year.
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The joint statement also backed the Paris climate accord in a reaffirmation that comes after US President Donald Trump pulled out of the agreement, accusing India and China of trying to extract "billions and billions and billions" of dollars in foreign aid from developed countries in the name of climate change.
A Chinese official cited how India invited leaders of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) during last year's Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa (BRICS) summit in Goa.
They also backed "Afghan-led and Afghan-owned" national reconciliation programme and the ongoing global efforts for peace and reconstruction of the war-torn country.
As part of the previous meeting to the venue, the ministers of Agriculture of the group also met and defended the importance of food security in the region.
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