6th BRICS summit

6th BRICS Summit
Sexta cúpula do BRICS
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Host countryBrazil
Venue(s)Centro de Eventos do Ceará[1]
CitiesFortaleza and Brasília[2]
Participants Brazil
 Russia
 India
 China
 South Africa
Websitebrics6.itamaraty.gov.br

The 6th BRICS summit was the sixth annual diplomatic meeting of the BRICS, a grouping of major emerging economies that includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. It was hosted by Brazil, as the first host country of the current five-year summit cycle;[3] the host city was Fortaleza.[4] Though Brazil had previously hosted a four-member BRIC summit in April 2010, 2014 marked its first full BRICS summit;[5] the 2010 summit in Brasília did not officially include South Africa, who were only invited as guests as a prelude to their gaining full membership in December 2010.[6] Argentine President Cristina Kirchner was a special guest of the summit, and the BRICS leaders met with their UNASUR counterparts shortly after. The 6th BRICS summit resulted in the official inauguration of the New Development Bank, a multilateral development bank intended as an alternative to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

  1. ^ "Programme: VI BRICS Summit". Brazilian Ministry of External Relations. 2014. Archived from the original on 18 July 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  2. ^ "UNASUR leaders arrive in Brazil for BRICS summit". Buenos Aires Herald. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
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  4. ^ "A Cúpula de Durban e o futuro dos BRICS". Post-Western World. 4 July 2013. Retrieved 7 November 2013.
  5. ^ "The BRICS summit: Lacking mortar". The Economist. 27 March 2013. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
  6. ^ "BRIC Summit Joint Statement, April 2010". Council on Foreign Relations. 15 April 2010. Archived from the original on 18 July 2014. Retrieved 10 July 2013.