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Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan will attend the 17th BRICS Leaders Summit in Rio de Janeiro on July 6 to 7, 2025, representing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the gathering hosted by BRICS term chair Brazil.
According to Turkish Foreign Ministry sources, Minister Fidan will participate in sessions titled "Strengthening Multilateralism, Economic-Financial Issues, and Artificial Intelligence" and "Environment, COP30, and Global Health," which are open to non-member countries.
Fidan previously participated in a "BRICS+" session on the margins of the BRICS Foreign Ministers Meeting in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, on June 10-11, 2024.
During the sessions, Fidan is expected to emphasize the importance of preserving and enhancing the effectiveness of multilateralism in solving global challenges and highlight the role of the BRICS platform in this framework.
He will convey Türkiye's principled, constructive, and humanitarian approach to recent crises in the Middle East, particularly Gaza, and draw attention to the threat posed by Israeli aggression to regional peace, security, and development.
The minister will also be expected to state that a more sensitive and inclusive multilateral system is needed to reduce poverty globally, eliminate inequality, and close the development gap between countries.
Bilateral meetings are planned on the margins of the summit.
The Foreign Minister will emphasize Türkiye's position that global prosperity can only be achieved through cooperation, dialogue, and stability-based approaches, and that military conflicts and trade wars do not serve this goal.
He will underline the importance of a fair and predictable international trade system.
The first day of the summit will include a session among BRICS member states under the theme “Peace and Security, Reform of Global Governance.”
Subsequent sessions, including those attended by Fidan, will involve participation from 11 BRICS members, 10 partner countries, eight invited states—including Türkiye—and 9 international and regional organizations.
Other invited countries include Azerbaijan, Palestine, Kenya, Colombia, Mexico, Chile, and Uruguay.
Discussions will cover a range of geopolitical issues, multilateral cooperation, economic developments, artificial intelligence, environmental matters, and global health.
BRIC was established in 2006 by Brazil, Russia, India, and the People's Republic of China and took the name BRICS in 2011 with the participation of South Africa as a consultation and cooperation platform.
Following expansion in August 2023, Egypt, Ethiopia, the United Arab Emirates, and Iran joined BRICS. The chair of Brazil announced in January 2025 that Indonesia also became a BRICS member.
BRICS does not have a secretariat, and its work is guided by a term presidency lasting one year.
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