India, May 15 -- India is hosting the 2026 Foreign Ministers-level meeting of BRICS on May 14-15, marking a significant diplomatic moment amid the ongoing hostilities in West Asia. The meeting has brought face to face Iranian, Emirati and Saudi foreign ministers for the first time since the escalation of conflict following the United States-Israel and Iran war on February 28, 2026. The meeting is also being attended by and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and is becoming a rare multilateral setting where key non-Western stakeholders are converging amid regional tensions.

REGIONAL TENSIONS AND INTERNAL DIVISIONS

However, the road to the BRICS meeting has already revealed the depth of regional divisions within the grouping. The rec...