<span style="color: #222222;">BRICS Sherpas and Sous Sherpas held their fourth and concluding meeting under India's Chairship today. The meeting was chaired by Secretary (CPV & OIA) in External Affairs Ministry Sanjay Bhattacharyya as India's BRICS Sherpa. The meeting provided an opportunity to review the activities held this year. For its Chairship, India had chosen the theme 'BRICS@15: Intra BRICS Cooperation for Continuity, Consolidation, and Consensus'. The priorities included Reform of the Multilateral System, Counter-Terrorism cooperation, Using Digital and Technological Solutions for attaining SDGs, and Enhancing People to People exchanges.<br />'' <br />'' BRICS Summit took place on 9th September this year in virtual format. The leaders adopted the Delhi Declaration which reaffirmed their commitment to fight the Covid pandemic, deepened the collaborative efforts of BRICS countries on political-security, economic and cultural fronts, and gave new vitality to BRICS.<br />'' <br />'' The BRICS Foreign Ministers in their meeting in June this year adopted the Joint Statement on Strengthening and Reforming the Multilateral System to make global governance more responsive and agile, effective, transparent, democratic, representative, and accountable to the Member States. The revised BRICS Terms of Reference were adopted by Sherpas in September this year reiterating their commitment to preserving and further strengthening the consensus-based working methods in BRICS at all levels.<br />'' <br />''During the year, nearly 150 BRICS meetings and events were organized, of which about 20 were held at Ministerial level. Intra-BRICS cooperation was extended to new areas, such as the inaugural BRICS Digital Health Summit and the 1st Meeting of BRICS Water Ministers.</span>