AT BRICS NSAs' meet, Doval says cooperation against terrorism should be bolstered without reservation

Around a week ahead of the crucial BRICS Summit 2022, NSA Ajit Doval attended the meet of the NSAs and emphasised on cooperation between the BRICS nations to counter terrorism.

Published on: Jun 15, 2022, 22:26:18 IST

By Shishir Gupta

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National Security Advisor Ajit Doval on Wednesday said cooperation against terrorism needs to be bolstered without any reservation, as he welcomed the ongoing ties among the BRICS countries to address the issue of terrorism. Doval attended the virtual BRICS meeting of NSAs hosted by Chinese NSA Yang Jiechi. "There is a need for urgent reform of the multilateral system in order to address global issues with credibility, equity and accountability," Doval said also stressing that the challenges of pandemics and climate change still need continued cooperation.

NSA Ajit Doval attending the virtual meeting of the NSAs of the BRICS countries on Wednesday.

The virtual meeting comes a week before Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin and China President Xi Jinping apart from the Presidents of Brazil and South Africa, will come face to face at the BRICS 2022 summit to be held virtually on June 23-24.

The theme of this year's BRICS summit is ‘Foster High-Quality BRICS Partnership Usher in a New Era for Global Development’.

The ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict will be one of the top issues to be discussed as this will be the first meeting of all BRICS leaders since the conflict began in February this year.

Jinping on Wednesday had a telephonic conversation with Putin ahead of the summit and said China is ready to play a constructive role to help settle the Ukraine crisis.

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Shishir Gupta
Shishir Gupta is Executive Editor at Hindustan Times and one of India's top journalists covering national security, strategic affairs, foreign policy and geopolitics. Over the past three decades, he has extensively reported on India's military, diplomatic and security landscape, covering every major conflict and national security challenge, from the 1999 Kargil War and the 2020 East Ladakh standoff to Operation Sindoor in 2025. He has also covered major terror attacks, including the IC-814 hijacking, the 26/11 Mumbai attacks and the 2025 Pahalgam terror strike, along with numerous Pakistan-backed terrorist incidents in the Kashmir Valley and across India. He has reported on national and state elections for more than three decades. A recognised authority on strategic affairs, Gupta has covered India's nuclear programme since the Pokhran-II (Shakti series) tests in May 1998 and has written extensively on global nuclear issues, Indian diplomacy and the country's expanding global outreach. He has also reported widely on international conflicts and terrorism, with a special focus on the Indian subcontinent. Gupta has interviewed Prime Minister Narendra Modi more than four times, including Modi's first interview with the print media after becoming Prime Minister in May 2014. His other interviews include three with the Dalai Lama, as well as conversations with Benjamin Netanyahu, Amit Shah, Yogi Adityanath, S. Jaishankar, Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal. He is the author of Indian Mujahideen: The Enemy Within (Hachette, 2011) and Himalayan Face-off: Chinese Assertion and Indian Riposte (Hachette, 2014). He was awarded the Chevening-Wolfson Joint Scholarship at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK, in 1998 and participated in the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) of the US State Department in 2006. He received the Ben Gurion Prize from Israel in 2011 and the K. Subrahmanyam Prize for Strategic Studies in 2015 from the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA). Since 2024, he has hosted Point Blank, Hindustan Times' weekly YouTube show on global geopolitics.Read More