The 2017 BRICS summit was the

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BRICS BRICS is an intergovernmental organization comprising ten countriesBrazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates. The idea of a BRICS-like group can be traced back to Russian foreign ...

summit, an international relations conference attended by the heads of state or heads of government of the five member states

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China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

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. The summit was held in

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, China, the second time the China has hosted the summit after the 2011 summit.

Participants

Participating leaders

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References

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