The foreign ministers of Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) met in New York on September 25th to discuss priority issues on the UN agenda, including agreeing on common approaches to global financial issues, the food crisis, climate change, and cooperation within the G8 process. They examined possible joint steps on these topics for upcoming international forums and discussed further developing quadripartite cooperation through scheduled meetings between their countries.

1. Press Release: Meeting of BRIC Foreign Ministers
New York, September 26, 2008
On September 25, a BRIC meeting involving Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian
Federation; Celso Amorim, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brazil; Yang Jiechi, Minister of Foreign Affairs
of China; and Anand Sharma, Minister of State for External Affairs of India, took place in New York.
Priority issues on the 63rd UNGA agenda were discussed.
Special attention was paid to agreeing on common approaches for all four countries to topical world
development problems, including the state of affairs in global finances, the food crisis, climate change
and cooperation within the Heiligendamm Process of the Group of Eighth and its partners.
Possible joint steps on these issues were examined in the context of upcoming international forums.
A keen exchange of views also took place on further steps to develop quadripartite interaction in the
course of scheduled meetings at the foreign ministers, finance ministers and other levels.
Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation