BRICS leaders adopted the New Delhi Declaration on Saturday, setting out an agenda for greater cooperation among emerging economies and developing countries, stronger representation in global governance and a more inclusive international order.The declaration was adopted in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and other leaders attending the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi.Also read: BRICS at 20 enters coming-of-age phase, PM Modi calls for ambitious agenda for next two decadesThe document, titled “Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability”, reaffirms the expanded grouping's commitment to political and security, economic and financial, and cultural and people-to-people cooperation. It also calls for strengthening the BRICS partnership with Emerging Markets and Developing Countries (EMDCs) and encouraging greater participation by partner countries.Global South representationThe document also commends India's 2026 BRICS Chairship, including the convening of more than 400 meetings and engagements across 30 cities. It says these initiatives have contributed to strengthening the BRICS strategic partnership and advancing cooperation on resilience, innovation, sustainable development and people-to-people exchanges.The declaration's section on “Inclusive Global Governance and Strengthening Multilateralism” calls for reforming and improving global governance to make international and multilateral systems more just, equitable, effective, representative and accountable.It reaffirms the central role of the United Nations and calls for greater participation and representation of EMDCs and Least Developed Countries in global decision-making.Also read: BRICS Summit in New Delhi: The grand finale is India's moment to navigate a bigger, and more divided blocFull transcriptWe, the Leaders of BRICS countries, met in New Delhi, India, from 12 to 13 September 2026 for the XVIII BRICS Summit held under the theme: "Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability".We reaffirm our commitment to the BRICS spirit of mutual respect and understanding, sovereign equality, solidarity, democracy, openness, inclusiveness, collaboration and consensus. Building on two decades of BRICS, we further commit ourselves to strengthening cooperation in the expanded BRICS under the three pillars of political and security, economic and financial, cultural and people-to-people cooperation, and to enhancing our strategic partnership for the benefit of our people through the promotion of peace, a more representative, fairer international order, a reinvigorated and reformed multilateral system, sustainable development and inclusive growth.We recognise the valuable contribution of Partner countries to BRICS cooperation. We underscore our strong belief that advancing the BRICS partnership with Emerging Markets and Developing Countries (EMDCs) will further contribute to strengthening the spirit of solidarity and international cooperation for the benefit of all. We reaffirm our commitment to fostering inclusive, mutually beneficial and development-oriented partnership with Partner countries. We encourage their increasing participation in BRICS engagements and practical cooperation in areas of shared interest.We commend India for hosting the Outreach/BRICS Plus Dialogue segment of the 18th BRICS Summit, which injects new impetus to strengthen international cooperation and solidarity.We commend the significant progress achieved under India's BRICS Chairship in 2026, under the theme "Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability", which reflects our shared commitment to strengthening BRICS cooperation in addressing common challenges with a balanced, practical, actionable, inclusive, development-oriented and people-centered approach. We reaffirm our commitment to advancing cooperation on the thematic priorities, particularly through strengthening capacities, promoting innovation, and advancing sustainable development and resilience.We welcome the convening of over four hundred meetings and engagements at the level of Ministers, Parliamentarians, Heads of Agencies, Officials, Experts, Businesses and People in thirty cities across India under the BRICS cooperation framework, which have contributed to strengthening the BRICS strategic partnership. We welcome the progress made in enhancing collective resilience, promoting innovation-driven economic growth, advancing sustainable development, deepening people-to-people exchanges, and amplifying the voice of BRICS for greater representation in global governance.Inclusive Global Governance and Strengthening MultilateralismOn the landmark occasion of the 20th anniversary of BRICS, we reiterate our 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. Bearing in mind the need to adapt the current architecture of international relations to better reflect the contemporary realities, we reiterate our commitment to strengthening multilateralism and multipolarity and to 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, advance sustainable development, ensure the promotion and protection of democracy, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, and promote cooperation based on the spirit of solidarity, mutual respect, justice and equality while respecting national circumstances, diversity of national systems and development pathways, with the aim to build a brighter shared future for the international community based on mutually beneficial cooperation.We reiterate our commitment to ensuring greater and more meaningful participation and representation of EMDCs, as well as Least Developed Countries (LDCs), especially from Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean, in global decision-making processes and structures and making them better attuned to contemporary realities.