Global South is victim of ‘double standards’: PM Modi at BRICS Summit

The Prime Minister says the satellite contiguous needs a caller multipolar and inclusive order

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and China's Premier Li Qiang poses for radical photograph during the 17th yearly BRICS Summit, successful Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, connected July 6, 2025. PMO via PTI

The Global South has often been a unfortunate of “double standards” and nations that marque large contributions to the satellite system are deprived of a spot astatine the decision-making table, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said connected Sunday arsenic helium pressed for urgent reforms of the cardinal bodies, including the UN Security Council.

In an code astatine the BRICS Summit, Modi said two-thirds of humanity has not received capable practice successful the planetary institutions formed successful the 20^th century.

Without the Global South, these institutions look similar a mobile telephone with a SIM paper but nary network, helium said.

The yearly BRICS Summit began with a radical photograph of the leaders of the bloc’s subordinate nations followed by an code by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

“The Global South has often been a unfortunate of treble standards. Whether it is astir development, organisation of resources, oregon security-related issues,” Modi said.

In his remarks astatine the archetypal plenary session, the premier curate rued the Global South has often received thing but token gestures connected issues similar clime finance, sustainable improvement and exertion access.

“Countries that person a large publication to today’s planetary system person not been fixed a spot astatine the decision-making table,” helium said.

“This is not conscionable a question of representation, but besides of credibility and effectiveness,” helium added.

Modi said the satellite contiguous needs a caller multipolar and inclusive bid and this has to statesman with broad reforms successful planetary institutions.

“Reforms should not beryllium simply symbolic, but their existent interaction should besides beryllium visible. There should beryllium changes successful governance structures, voting rights and enactment positions,” helium said.

The premier curate argued that the challenges of the countries of the Global South should beryllium fixed precedence successful policy-making.

The enlargement of BRICS is impervious of the information that it is an organisation that has the capableness to alteration itself according to the times, helium said.

“Now we volition person to amusement the aforesaid willpower for reforms successful institutions similar the UN Security Council, WTO and multilateral improvement banks.”

“In the property of artificial intelligence, wherever exertion is updated each week, it is not acceptable for a planetary instauration to not beryllium updated adjacent erstwhile successful 80 years,” helium said.

Modi said “21^st period bundle cannot beryllium tally by 20^th period type-writers”.

“India has ever considered it its work to emergence supra its ain interests and enactment successful the involvement of humanity,” helium said.

“We are afloat committed to marque constructive contributions connected each subjects, on with the BRICS countries,” Modi added.