India, May 13 -- Iran will welcome any Indian initiative to end the war in West Asia and ensure security and stability, though one BRICS member state is holding up consensus within the grouping in finalising a joint declaration, Iranian deputy foreign minister Kazem Gharibabadi said on Wednesday ahead of a key meeting of the bloc.

Gharibabadi, a member of the Iranian team conducting negotiations with the US, spoke with a small group of journalists hours before Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi arrived in New Delhi to participate in a meeting of BRICS foreign ministers to be held during May 14-15. Araghchi will also hold bilateral meetings with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov....