India to host BRICS senior officials meeting bringing Iran and UAE together

Exam-focused facts from the 14 April 2026 current affairs briefing.

Key facts

India is hosting a BRICS senior officials meeting under its BRICS presidency that will see Iran and the UAE face to face for the first time since the West Asian conflict.
The meeting agenda covers broader West Asian and North African issues including Palestine, Syria, Yemen and Lebanon.
Iran, the UAE and Saudi Arabia are all BRICS members.
BRICS could not issue a statement on the war earlier as consensus eluded it due to differences between Iran and UAE.
Egypt, a BRICS member and India's strategic partner, is assisting India to hold the meeting and subsequent events including the foreign ministers' meet in May and the summit in September.
Russian support has also been extended to India's BRICS Presidency.