Xi To Attend BRICS Leaders Summit On Israel-Palestine

Wires reporting, per Chinese state media, that Chinese President Xi Jinping will virtually attend, and deliver a speech, at a meeting of BRICS leaders to discuss Israel and Palestine on Tuesday 21 November.

• The Kremlin confirmed a short time ago that Russian President Vladimir Putin will also attend the meeting.
• The office of BRICS Chair, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, said in a statement: “Leaders of BRICS countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China - will join the virtual Extraordinary Meeting with invited BRICS leaders of Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates.“
• "President Ramaphosa will deliver opening remarks … and member and invited States will also deliver country statements on the current humanitarian crisis in Gaza."
• The statement says: “United Nations Secretary General António Guterres will participate in the virtual meeting, at the end of which leaders are expected to adopt a Joint Statement on the situation in the Middle East, with particular reference to Gaza.”
• The virtual summit, the first by the bloc since the group invited six additional members to join in August, may struggle to produce a joint statement condemning Israel, considering India's support for Israel, but individual country statements are likely to criticise the Israeli response and largely unconditional NATO support.