NSA Doval meets counterparts from BRICS grouping, discusses West Asia and India-China ties

📌 Summary:

• NSA Ajit Doval hosted the BRICS National Security Advisers (NSAs) meeting in New Delhi — a two-day event surveying the global security architecture
• Doval held bilateral talks with Iran's Ghadir Nezamipour (Deputy Secretary, Supreme National Security Council), Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Brazil's Carlos Cozendey
• Developments in West Asia dominated; Doval and the Iranian side reviewed the regional situation, BRICS-platform cooperation and India-Iran bilateral ties
• MEA described the Doval–Wang Yi meeting as "forward looking"; both sides noted progress towards gradual normalisation of India-China relations
• Doval underlined that stable, predictable and constructive India-China ties build trust and better mutual understanding

🎯 UPSC Relevance: GS2 IR — India in plurilateral groupings (BRICS), India-China normalisation, and West Asia diplomacy

📝 Prelims Facts:

• BRICS NSAs mechanism convened in New Delhi, hosted by India
• Iran's apex security body is the Supreme National Security Council
• Wang Yi is China's Foreign Minister

🔑 Key Term: BRICS NSAs Meeting — a security-track dialogue among BRICS members' National Security Advisers on strategic and regional security issues