In 2019, the BRICS summit will be hosted in Brasília for the second time – the first occasion was in 2010, at the second summit of the grouping. The capital of Brazil will be the first city to receive BRICS’s main meeting twice.
BRICS is the group composed by the five major emerging countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -, which together represent about 42% of the population, 23% of GDP, 30% of the territory and 18% of the global trade.
The XI BRICS Summit will take place at the Itamaraty Palace, the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil. The palace is one of Niemeyer’s masterpieces. Inaugurated in 1970, the majestic building of modernist architecture has more than five hundred works of art, including panels, paintings, sculptures and busts of the patrons of Brazilian diplomacy.
At the palace’s façade, where heads of state and foreign ministers are received, one can behold Bruno Giorgi’s sculpture Meteoro, which represents the union of the five continents of the world. Itamaraty Palace also has the largest interior free-span of Latin America – with more than 2,800 square meters – and with landscape works by Burle Marx, using Brazilian native plants, both inside and outside of the building.
The 2019 Brazilian Presidency focuses on the theme, ‘BRICS: Economic Growth for an Innovative Future’.
VENUE:
Brasilia, Brazil
13-14 November 2019
Original source: BRICS
Published on 29 August 2019
