BRICS Foreign Ministers video conference meet on COVID-19 today
Medical staff at an NHS drive through coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing facility in the car park of Chessington World of Adventures
BRICS Foreign minister will meet today via video conference at 4.30 pm IST to discuss COVID crisis. The meet is expected to discuss a possible joint BRICS strategy to deal with the crisis that has engulfed the world.
The meet has been organised by Russia that is the chair of the grouping this year and will host all the BRICS meets this year.
It comes as a multilateral organisation such as G20 have seen activity on a globally coordinated approach to deal with COVID crisis.
The matter was discussed during the conversation between Foreign Secretary Harsh V Shringla and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov. During the talks, both sides also talked about the close bilateral cooperation in ensuring the welfare of each other’s stranded citizens in their respective countries due to COVID crisis. About 15,000 Indian students in Russia and about 5000 Russian tourists are in India.
Meanwhile, Russia has called Indian decision to send medicines as a "noble" one, saying it will be reciprocated. Speaking to WION, Russian envoy to India Nikolay Kudashev said,"The generous decision of the government of India to lift the ban on the export of important medicines to treat COVID-19 patients despite the increased demand in this country was very much appreciated in Russia. Be sure, it will be reciprocated."
He also lauded India's "Comprehensive efforts" that resulted in significant "decrease in the rate of infection". Last month Indian PM Modi and Russian President Putin had spoken on the COVID crisis issue.
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Meanwhile, the Russian Government's main defence export body, Rosoboronexport has donated $2 million for PM CARES Fund formed to deal with the COVID crisis. Rosoboronexport is the first foreign donor to acknowledge its contribution to PM CARES fund.