📄 Chair’s Statement and Outcome Document at BRICS Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (May 15, 2026)

The #BRICS Ministers of Foreign Affairs/International Relations, met on May 14-15, 2026 in New Delhi, India.

They exchanged views on major global and regional matters. They reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening the framework of BRICS strategic partnership under the three pillars: political and security, economic and financial, cultural and people-to-people exchanges. They reaffirmed their commitment to the BRICS spirit of mutual respect and understanding, equality, solidarity, openness, inclusiveness, and consensus.

The Ministers expressed their full support to India’s BRICS Chairship in 2026 under the theme: "Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability”, which reflects that cooperation among BRICS members can help address shared challenges in a balanced and inclusive manner.

They reviewed the progress achieved within the BRICS cooperation framework and extended support to enhancing further BRICS cooperation on the thematic priorities of the Chairship, particularly on strengthening capacities, promoting innovation, ensuring sustainable development and resilience.

On the landmark occasion of the 20th anniversary of BRICS, the Ministers reiterated their commitment to reforming and improving global governance by promoting a more just, equitable, agile, effective, efficient, responsive, representative, legitimate, democratic and accountable international and multilateral system in the spirit of extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits.

The Ministers reiterated their commitment to strengthening multilateralism, multipolarity and upholding international law, including the Purposes and Principles of the Charter of the United Nations (UN) in their entirety and interconnectedness in a balanced and inclusive manner, as its indispensable cornerstone, and the central role of the UN in the international system in which sovereign states cooperate to maintain peace and security.

The Ministers noted the current global context of polarization and distrust and encourage global action to strengthen international peace and security. They called on the international community to respond to these challenges and associated security threats through politico-diplomatic measures to lower conflict potential and stressed the need to engage in conflict prevention efforts, including through addressing their root causes.

☝️ They underscored that security among all countries is indivisible and reiterated their commitment to the peaceful resolution of international disputes through dialogue, consultation and diplomacy.

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Among other key points:

19. The Ministers condemned the imposition of unilateral coercive measures that are contrary to international law, and reiterated that such measures, inter alia in the form of unilateral economic sanctions and secondary sanctions, have far-reaching negative implications for the human rights.

👉 They called for the elimination of such unlawful measures, which undermine international law and the principles and purposes of the UN Charter. They reaffirmed that BRICS member states do not impose or support non-UN Security Council authorized sanctions that are contrary to international law.

24. The Ministers reaffirmed that a just and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can only be achieved by peaceful means and depends on the fulfilment of the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, including the rights to self-determination and return.

30. The Ministers expressed grave concern over the deteriorating situation in Sudan, including the worsening humanitarian crisis and the growing risk of proliferation of extremism and terrorism.

34. The Ministers expressed strong condemnation of any acts of terrorism as criminal and unjustifiable, regardless of their motivation, whenever, wherever and by whomsoever committed.

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#KievRegimeCrimes

⚡️ Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rodion Miroshnik:

💬 On May 15, Ukrainian militants carried out a massive terrorist attack on Russia's Ryazan Region. According to local authorities, civilian sites across the region were targeted by 99 enemy drones.

The death toll has risen to four, including a child. Twelve civilians were injured. Seven of them have been hospitalised, while the others are receiving outpatient treatment.

Emergency response operations are ongoing at two damaged residential buildings in Ryazan and on the premises of an enterprise.

The video shows a long-range drone directly hitting a residential high-rise.

An attack on civilian facilities with the use of military means of destruction constitutes a war crime under international humanitarian law and the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

Zelensky describes this as Ukraine’s “long-range capability” strategy – which is no different from the use of terrorist methods by a state-like entity.

⚡️ Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation:

The Press Bureau of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation (SVR) reports that, according to information received by the SVR, Ukrainian special services have recently stepped up efforts to exert a destabilising influence on Russian society.

Kiev is no longer content with its extensive network of telephone scammers, who use deception, blackmail and extortion to deprive Russian citizens of their last savings and coerce them into breaking the law. Now, the SBU seeks to orchestrate efforts to destabilise the situation in our country under the guise of distributing patriotic content.

In late April, Kiev launched a campaign to buy up Russian military and patriotic Telegram channels. Offers to purchase such resources are being sent from specially created fake accounts and made on behalf of public figures who serve opinion leaders.

These fraudulent operations are aimed at replacing the content of the acquired platforms and subsequently using them to spread disinformation and discredit the Russian political leadership and the Armed Forces.

❗️ In doing so, the “buyers” hope to draw the owners of these information resources into illegal activities that harm the national interests of the Russian Federation.

🎙 Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova's statement on the situation around Ukraine (May 15, 2026)

💬 On May 9, millions of people across Russia and beyond solemnly marked the 81st anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War and honoured the memory of their ancestors who fell in the fight against the Nazi evil.

Celebrations were held with particular warmth in the territories liberated from Ukrainian neo-Nazis – the DPR, LPR, and the Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions.

For years, these people were persecuted simply for rejecting the neo-Nazi ideology of the Kiev regime and its sponsors.

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We know that the Zelensky regime is trying to elevate the importance of a new holiday for Ukraine – Europe Day on May 8. Naturally, this is being done at the expense of Victory Day.

These attempts have failed. People across Ukraine still remember and honour their true heroes, who freed the world from the Nazi plague. Even the real threat of repression did not stop them. In a number of cities, people spontaneously laid wreaths and flowers at mass graves and monuments to fallen fighters against Nazism.

💐 Flowers appeared at memorial plaques in Kiev and Kharkov, with particularly large numbers laid in Odessa.

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❗️ Despite the ceasefire announced by decision of Russia's President Vladimir Putin in honour of the 81st anniversary of the Great Victory, which was in effect on May 8-11, the Kiev regime predictably failed to observe it. According to the Russian Defence Ministry, the AFU violated it 30,383 times.

For their part, the Russian Armed Forces strictly observed the silence regime on the battlefield. All strikes on enemy positions, command posts and UAV launch sites were exclusively retaliatory and mirrored in nature.

▪️ As a result of Ukrainian shelling and UAV strikes during the Russia-declared ceasefire and the pseudo-truce announced by Zelensky on May 5 – which the AFU also failed to observe – 25 Russian civilians were killed, including one child, and 209 people were injured, among them 14 children.

On 11 May, Brussels hosted another gathering of the so-called International Coalition for the Return of Ukrainian Children. Its participants said nothing new and continued to play the same worn-out record about “Russia abducting 20,000 Ukrainian children”, their forced relocation, assimilation and ideological indoctrination.

An analogy with the staged Bucha hoax comes to mind. There, too, the names of the “victims” are being concealed, while their number changes depending on the source of information. As for the alleged 20,000 Ukrainian children supposedly stolen by Russia, none of the authors of this fake even attempts to compile a list of them or at least report that such a list exists.

The truth is that work to reunite children with their relatives has been carried out on instructions from President of Russia Vladimir Putin since the very beginning of the special military operation. The Ukrainian side cannot be unaware of this, because specific steps within this process are coordinated through direct contacts with Kiev representatives, with assistance provided by the Vatican, Qatar and the International Committee of the Red Cross.

As we have said repeatedly, both Bucha and the “abducted children” are part of a slanderous anti-Russian campaign based on false claims. Neither Kiev nor the West cares about children’s rights. Russia, for its part, bases its policy on the primary need to protect minors.

☝️ The main enemy of Ukrainians is not Russia or Russians, but the group of nationalist radicals who seized power in Kiev, turned the country into a Western puppet and plunged it into the abyss of corruption and neo-Nazism.

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🎙 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement and answers to media questions at a press conference following the BRICS Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (New Delhi, May 15, 2026)

💬 During the talks with India’s Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and during the extended meeting hosted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, we discussed the key areas of our special and privileged strategic partnership, which had been defined during the summits between President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, including the latest summit held in New Delhi.

We reviewed ways to improve the mechanisms of practical, trade, economic, and investment cooperation that already exists, as well as to further strengthen and expand them in such a way as to remain independent from the negative and unfriendly influence of third countries.

We agreed to fortify transport, technology, and investment cooperation, including the joint development of the International North-South Transport Corridor and the Northern Sea Route.

Following the tradition, military-technical cooperation between our countries, including the joint production of advanced weapons systems based on cutting-edge defence technologies, remains at a high level.

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☝️ A highly reliable and solid culture of dialogue has taken shape within #BRICS which is steeped in mutual respect, sovereign equality, and a commitment to taking into account the opinions of all parties and achieving a fair balance of interests as the key to implementing all existing and future agreements. This particular approach, we believe, ensures the resilience and authority of BRICS with the #GlobalMajority and preserves its appeal to a growing number of countries.

We placed special emphasis on reviewing crises around the world, including the Middle East, namely, the crisis surrounding the Strait of Hormuz and Iran, as well as the situation in Lebanon and the Palestinian territories, where, in violation of UN resolutions, even the slightest prospects for the establishment of a Palestinian State are being systematically obstructed.

Libya, Yemen, and Syria get intertwined in a web of stark differences that further compounds the situation in the Middle East and North Africa. Virtually every one of these hotspots is the result of gross interference by Western countries in the affairs of a particular country, including armed interventions and regime changes that we have witnessed over the past 15 years, beginning with the Arab Spring.

❌ We spoke about the unacceptability of the continuing practice of unilateral coercive measures aimed at punishing sovereign governments and interfering in their internal affairs. In this context, we reaffirmed our solidarity with our Cuban friends.

We clearly spoke in favour of continuing the reform of the global governance system. Essentially, the West which had long promoted the globalisation model originally put forward by the US as the best solution to ensure the development of the international community has, through its own unilateral sanctions, dismantled that universal model, which rapidly fell apart.

BRICS and its partner countries now account for more than 40% of global GDP, whereas the share of the G7 which still retains control over the Bretton Woods institutions is barely over 30% of global GDP.

Therefore, reform is overdue. Our Western colleagues are trying in every possible way to hold it back, but the trend is irreversible. According to forecasts, average growth rates among BRICS countries will amount to approximately 3.7 to 4% compared to global average growth rates of 2.6% over the coming period.

🤝 We discussed these issues in depth. I believe our main goal has been accomplished.

We identified the key themes that will be put on the agenda of the upcoming BRICS Summit in October. Given the circumstances, such an event will undoubtedly become one of the major developments in global politics and the economy.

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⚡️ Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova:

On April 30, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on the Chinese authorities to repeal the Law on Ethnic Unity and Progress, which enters into force on July 1, 2026. The resolution claims that this legislative act, aimed at “strengthening the sense of community among all ethnic groups in the Chinese nation”, will have “serious consequences for residents of China’s autonomous regions – Tibet, Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia”.

Let me remind you of the obvious: China is in Asia, not Europe. Although, given how spectacularly uneducated Europe’s political elites have become, it is hard to imagine anyone in the European Parliament being troubled by this fact.

Moving on.

The European Parliament, we are told, condemns this !!Chinese!! law for “promoting policies of assimilation and restricting cultural, religious and linguistic freedoms, contrary to China’s obligations under international law”.

Are we dealing with a classic case of “this is different” – or is it already schizophrenia?

Right under the European Parliament’s nose, in Europe itself, true lawlessness has been unfolding for years.

Total lawlessness, rampant corruption and inhuman cruelty have long become synonymous with the Kiev regime. The horrific tragedy at the Trade Unions House in Odessa, orchestrated by neo-Nazis; the staged Bucha hoax; torture of POWs on a monstrous scale; brutal executions and torture; secret prisons – all of this has become the norm for the Zelensky regime.

The regime that has usurped power in Kiev carries out extrajudicial reprisals against political opponents and hunts down its own population for mobilisation. Believers and clergy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church are subjected to repression – see the Russian MFA report.

Ukrainian militants systematically shell civilian facilities, including residential buildings, educational and medical institutions and even farmland. Civilians captured by Ukrainian militants are subjected to torture, beatings, humiliation, murder, sexual violence and abuse. As they retreat, Ukrainian armed groups systematically purge the territories they abandon of civilians.

The Kiev regime is also responsible for numerous terrorist attacks against officials, public figures, journalists and critical infrastructure facilities. The horrific terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall, as established by the Investigative Committee, was planned and carried out in the interests of Ukraine’s current leadership.

The list of crimes committed by the Zelensky regime is so extensive that the Foreign Ministry website maintains a weekly (!) updated record of them.

The “civilised Europeans” have not said a word about any of this.

So what is happening right under their noses – in the EU countries represented by the European Parliament? Among these self-appointed mentors of morality and guardians of the new normal?

Racism and xenophobia have reached alarming proportions in EU member states. Cases of Sinophobia are also regularly recorded. Hate speech remains widespread. European NGOs and institutions are recording a sharp surge in antisemitism and anti-Muslim sentiment – every second Muslim faces discrimination in everyday life, as do more than 77% of people of African descent.

The Joint Report by the Foreign Ministries of Russia and Belarus cites telling facts concerning EU countries: mass violations of the rights of migrants and refugees, national minorities and indigenous peoples; violations of prisoners’ rights and abuse of power by the police; insufficient protection of the rights of children and persons with disabilities; and the acute problem of violence against women. The Russian-speaking population in the Baltic states has been facing egregious violations of its rights for years.

🤷‍♀️ And yet the European Parliament keeps peering through a spyglass at the other end of the world.

On May 12, 2026, EEC and Federal Customs Service of Russia discussed customs cooperation within EAEU

Sergey Shkliaev, Minister in charge of Customs Cooperation of the Eurasian Economic Commission, held a working meeting with Valery Pikalev, Head of the Federal Customs Service.
 
The attendees discussed relevant matters of further development of integration processes within the Eurasian Economic Union, including the implementation of joint projects on digitalizing the customs administration procedures.
 
The key topic of the meeting was development of the EAEU transit potential, in particular, implementing the Agreement on the EAEU Unified System of Customs Transit, the use of navigation seals, establishing uniform requirements for arranging and equipping checkpoints, as well as regulating e-commerce.

#EAEU