BRICS Leaders Adopt New Delhi Declaration Condemning Pahalgam Terror Attack, With China and Russia Signing On

Leaders of the BRICS bloc — hosted by India at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, for the 18th BRICS Summit (Sep 11-13, 2026) under India's 2026 chairship — unanimously adopted the 140-point New Delhi Declaration on September 12, 2026. The declaration 'strongly condemned' the April 22, 2025 terrorist attack at Baisaran meadow, Pahalgam, which killed 26 people, and called for stronger international cooperation against terrorist financing, networks and safe havens, urging 'zero tolerance' and rejection of 'double standards' in counter-terrorism. The outcome was read as a diplomatic win for India: it marks the fourth consecutive BRICS-format document (after the 2025 Foreign Ministers' and Leaders' statements and the SCO's September 2025 declaration) in which China and Russia have joined a Pahalgam condemnation, despite Beijing's close ties to Islamabad. The declaration did not name Pakistan directly. The 140-paragraph text also covered UN Security Council and IMF reform, de-dollarisation, Gaza and West Asia, and AI governance. Pakistan's government did not immediately respond to the declaration's Pahalgam language.