BRICS stands for rules based on multilateralism and governance, South Africa's International Relations and Cooperation Minister Naledi Pandor said

While Russia has denied mediating between India and China over the ongoing border conflict, it laid the groundwork for a meeting in Moscow which was attended by Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar along with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on September 10. This was the first bilateral meet between the two ministers since the standoff that started in May

The NSAs also discussed biological security cooperation and information and communications technology security, and there was a proposal to continue work on a system for countering security threats in the sphere of information

A neutral military mediator can understand the tactical security concerns of each side and help in determining the best solution under the circumstances

Russia is ready to cooperate with strategic partners in Africa, and Africa-BRICS format has great potential for that, Russian Ambassador-at-Large Oleg Ozerov

Mr Sergey Ryabkov, Russian Sherpa in BRICS, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, chaired a Meeting of BRICS Sherpas/Sous-Sherpas via videoconference