7th BRICS Summit VII саммит БРИКС
Host country	Russia
Date	8–9 July 2015
Cities	Ufa, Bashkortostan
Participants	BRICS
Follows	6th BRICS summit
Precedes	8th BRICS summit
Website	en.brics2015.ru

The 7th BRICS summit was the seventh annual diplomatic summit of the head of states or government of the BRICS member states. It was held in the Russian city of Ufa in Bashkortostan on 8–9 July 2015.^[1]

Background

During the 6th BRICS summit in Fortaleza, Brazil, the BRICS leaders signed a declaration reading: "Brazil, India, China and South Africa convey their appreciation to Russia for its offer to host the Seventh BRICS Summit in 2015 in the city of Ufa and extend their full support to that end."^[2][3]

Agenda

The summit coincided with the entry into force of constituting agreements of the New Development Bank and the BRICS Contingent Reserve Arrangement and during the summit inaugural meetings of the NDB were held, and it was announced it would be lending in local currency; and open up membership to non-BRICS countries in the coming months.^[4]

Participants

Core BRICS members Host state and leader are shown in bold text.
Member		Represented by	Title
	Brazil	Dilma Rousseff	President
	Russia	Vladimir Putin	President
	India	Narendra Modi	Prime Minister
	China	Xi Jinping	President
	South Africa	Jacob Zuma	President

BRICS-SCO-EEU summit

The BRICS held a joint summit with the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and the Eurasian Economic Union in Ufa on 9 July. Invited heads of states or government:^{[citation needed]}

•  Afghanistan – Ashraf Ghani
•  Armenia – Serzh Sargsyan
•  Belarus – Alexander Lukashenko
•  Iran – Hassan Rouhani
•  Kazakhstan – Nursultan Nazarbaev
•  Kyrgyzstan – Almazbek Atambayev
•  Mongolia – Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
•  Pakistan – Nawaz Sharif
•  Tajikistan – Emomali Rahmon
•  Uzbekistan – Islam Karimov

Leaders

• 
  Brazil
  Dilma Rousseff, President
• 
  Russia
  Vladimir Putin, President (Host)
• 
  India
  Narendra Modi,
  Prime Minister
• 
   China
  Xi Jinping, President
• 
  South Africa
  Jacob Zuma, President

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