{"id":966,"date":"2025-07-07T04:44:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T04:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/?p=966"},"modified":"2025-07-07T04:46:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T04:46:35","slug":"pm-modi-and-cuban-president-miguel-diaz-meet-on-sidelines-of-brics-summit-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/2025\/07\/07\/pm-modi-and-cuban-president-miguel-diaz-meet-on-sidelines-of-brics-summit-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi and Cuban President Miguel Diaz Meet on Sidelines of BRICS Summit 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"9fece8afa224fd09e54b043d0febfb58\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- NR ATF -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8898941184964366\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"4839033563\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>As part of the ongoing international tour and the BRICS Summit, India\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/2025\/07\/03\/pm-narendra-modi-awarded-ghanas-highest-civilian-honour\/\">Prime Minister, Narendra Modi<\/a> recently met the President of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez on Sunday, July 6, to discuss imminent matters involving key sectors such as pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, traditional medicine and digital public infrastructure; with an aim to bolster the bilateral ties deeply.<\/p>\n<p>This meeting came on the sidelines of the <a href=\"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/2025\/06\/17\/pm-narendra-modi-lands-in-canada-for-g7-summit-aims-to-discuss-this-big-issue\/\">17th BRICS Summit<\/a>, being held from July 6-7, 2025, in Brazil. According to an official statement by the <a href=\"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/2025\/05\/15\/ministry-of-external-affairs-introduces-e-passport-features-benefits-more\/\">Union Ministry of External Affairs (MEA)<\/a>, both leaders also exchanged views on enhancing cooperation in areas including Ayurveda, Unified Payment Interface (UPI), disaster management, and capacity building.<\/p>\n<p>The two political leaders agreed to work mutually on issues of concern to the global South, including in the areas of health, <a href=\"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/2025\/06\/02\/covid-19-cases-in-india-on-rise-kerala-leads-with-over-1400-active-cases\/\">pandemic<\/a> and climate change. They appreciated the cooperation between the two countries in the multilateral arena, the statement further added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>PM Narendra Modi met with President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez of\u00a0Cuba\u00a0on the sidelines of the 17th BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil<\/em>,&#8221; MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>He posted, &#8220;<em>Both leaders exchanged views on various facets of India-Cuba relationship including in the areas of economic cooperation, biotechnology, pharma, Ayurveda and traditional medicine, Digital Public Infrastructure and UPI, disaster management, and capacity building<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During his address at the BRICS Summit, PM Narendra Modi openly condemned the heinous carnage on innocent civilians during the <a href=\"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/2025\/05\/14\/operation-keller-the-new-mission-after-operation-sindoor\/\">Pahalgam episode<\/a>, terming it as an attack on \u2018humanity\u2019. His scathing remarks on the rising terrorism further included a staunch voice for the global South, stating that it has often been a victim of double standards when it comes to development, distribution of resources or security-related issues.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Global South\u2019 has been repeatedly handed nothing but token gestures on climate finance, sustainable development and technology access, <a href=\"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/2025\/07\/02\/union-ministry-announces-national-sports-policy-2025-focus-on-holistic-development-through-power-of-sports\/\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi<\/a> opined while addressing the participating members at 17th\u00a0BRICS\u00a0Summit.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister&#8217;s statement comes even as BRICS leaders converged at Rio de Janeiro in Brazil to hold summit talks. China\u2019s President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin skipped the summit, for reasons unknown to the public.\u00a0Addressing the global leaders, the prime minister stated that India remains fully committed to making constructive contributions, together with BRICS countries, on all issues pertaining to each of them.<\/p>\n<p>While speaking on the expansion of BRICS as an association, PM Modi also expressed his positive belief that addition of new friends was a proof that the organisation had an ability to change with time. BRICS, originally comprising of Brazil, Russia, <a href=\"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/2025\/07\/05\/no-extra-visa-for-indians-15-countries-you-can-visit-with-uk-visa\/\">India<\/a>, China, and South Africa, expanded in 2024 to include Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the UAE. Indonesia became a member recently in 2025, making it a 10-country body as of today.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the ongoing international tour and the BRICS Summit, India\u2019s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi recently met the President of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[299],"tags":[348,350,351,216,349,309],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-brics","tag-brics-summit-2025","tag-cuba","tag-india","tag-miguel-diaz","tag-pm-modi","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions\/970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}