BRICS
Summits
The grouping has held annual summits since 2009, with member countries taking turns to host. Prior to South Africa's admission, two BRIC summits were held, in 2009 and 2010.

BRICS

Section Title: Summits
Table Section Text: The grouping has held annual summits since 2009, with member countries taking turns to host. Prior to South Africa's admission, two BRIC summits were held, in 2009 and 2010.

Sr. No.	Date(s)	Host country	Host leader	Location	Notes

1st	16 June 2009	Russia	Dmitry Medvedev	Yekaterinburg (Sevastianov's House)

2nd	15 April 2010	Brazil	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva	Brasília	Guests: Jacob Zuma (President of South Africa) and Riyad al-Maliki (Foreign Minister of the Palestinian National Authority)

3rd	14 April 2011	China	Hu Jintao	Sanya (Sheraton Sanya Resort)	First summit to include South Africa alongside the original BRIC countries.

4th	29 March 2012	India	Manmohan Singh	New Delhi (Taj Mahal Hotel)	The BRICS Cable announced an optical fibre submarine communications cable system that carries telecommunications between the BRICS countries.

5th	26–27 March 2013	South Africa	Jacob Zuma	Durban (Durban ICC)

6th	14–17 July 2014	Brazil	Dilma Rousseff	Fortaleza (Centro de Eventos do Ceará) Brasília	BRICS New Development Bank and BRICS Contingent Reserve Arrangement agreements signed. Guest: Leaders of Union of South American Nations (UNASUR)

7th	8–9 July 2015	Russia	Vladimir Putin	Ufa (Congress Hall)	Joint summit with SCO-EAEU

8th	15–16 October 2016	India	Narendra Modi	Benaulim (Taj Exotica)	Joint summit with BIMSTEC

9th	3–5 September 2017	China	Xi Jinping	Xiamen (Xiamen International Conference Center)	Joint summit with EMDCD

10th	25–27 July 2018	South Africa	Cyril Ramaphosa	Johannesburg (Sandton Convention Centre)

11th	13–14 November 2019	Brazil	Jair Bolsonaro	Curitiba (Complexo Imap Barigui)

12th	TBD 2020	Russia	Vladimir Putin	Chelyabinsk	Joint summit with SCO

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The BRIC grouping's first summit was held on 16 June 2009, with Russia's Dmitry Medvede in Yekaterinburg.

final_sentence: The BRIC grouping's first summit was held on 16 June 2009, with Russia's Dmitry Medvede in Yekaterinburg.