BRICS in New Delhi: a joint declaration calls for “maximum restraint” in the Middle East

Saudi Arabia

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2 SOURCES

Cautious guest, not committed to the bloc · 1 of 10 countries

Riyadhh is approaching the BRICS summit in New Delhi with the caution of a guest, not a committed member of the bloc

Bangladesh

2 SOURCES

South Asian press attentive to diplomatic feat · 3 of 10 countries

Dhaka retains from New Delhi mainly the claim for a less locked-up global governance, more than the implicit condemnation of the war in the Middle East

China

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2 SOURCES

Founding powers claiming an alternative pole · 3 of 10 countries

Beijing takes away from the New Delhi summit less the formula on "maximum restraint" in the Middle East than the validation of a reform of global governance that the BRICS have been promoting for years.

France

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5 SOURCES

Western and Lusophone press attentive to internal divisions · 3 of 10 countries

Paris sees in the BRICS text a facade of consensus, where eleven capitals draw from the same sentence opposing diplomatic interpretations on the Middle East.

India

3 SOURCES

Founding powers claiming an alternative pole · 3 of 10 countries

New Delhi claims a three-pronged diplomatic success: consensus wrested between Tehran and Abu Dhabi, a named mention of the Pahalgam attack in the text, and Modi's call to transform the "privilege pyramid" into shared governance.

Nepal

3 SOURCES

South Asian press attentive to diplomatic feat · 3 of 10 countries

Kathmandu is gauging New Delhi's diplomatic prowess, which has succeeded in getting Iran and the United Arab Emirates, two previously divided members, to unanimously sign a text on the Middle East war.

Pakistan

3 SOURCES

South Asian press attentive to diplomatic feat · 3 of 10 countries

Islamabad is taking note of New Delhi's focus on Modi's "privilege pyramid" formula, more so than the details of the war in the Middle East.

Portugal

3 SOURCES

Western and Lusophone press attentive to internal divisions · 3 of 10 countries

Lisbon measures the diplomatic feat of a text adopted unanimously despite eleven divergent national positions, from Beijing to Tehran via Moscow.

United Kingdom

2 SOURCES

Western and Lusophone press attentive to internal divisions · 3 of 10 countries

London sees the BRICS statement as an exercise in tightrope walking dictated by the shadow of Donald Trump, rather than as a united front against Washington.

Russia

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5 SOURCES

Founding powers claiming an alternative pole · 3 of 10 countries

Moscow claims in the New Delhi declaration that the proof is that the BRICS are imposing themselves as an autonomous pole of global governance, driven by Putin's call to adapt international financial institutions and by the group's support for a reform of the UN Security Council.