XIAMEN (China) (Sputnik) — Chinese President Xi Jinping opened the plenary session of the 9th BRICS summit in the country's southeastern city of Xiamen calling on the bloc to intensify cooperation efforts.
"Now I declare that the plenary session of the BRICS summit starts… We must redouble our efforts to usher in the second golden decade of BRICS cooperation," Xi said.
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The Xiamen summit is being held from September 3-5 in the new BRICS Plus format, with leaders of such non-BRICS countries as Egypt, Mexico, Thailand, Guinea and Tajikistan also taking part, along with the member-states Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
