GOA (Sputnik), Anastasia Levchenko – Idian leader Narendra Modi is already at the summit's venue. Arrival of the presidents of Russia, South Africa and China is pending.
14 October 2016, 14:32 GMT
The eighth annual BRICS event will be attended by all five leaders, who will discuss a plan for cooperation in the near future as well as a wide range of political, economic and security issues.
BRICS is an association of five developing economies which comprise over one third of the world's population. BRICS member-states (China, Russia, Brazil, India and South Africa) have a combined nominal GDP equivalent to approximately 20 percent of the gross world product.
