BRICS members agree on ‘independent’ State of Palestine

The Hindu · 🇮🇳 public India · May 16, 2026 · 437 words · By The Hindu Bureau

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Claim 1: “The BRICS Foreign Ministers’ meeting... reaffirmed the grouping’s call for the creation of an ‘independent and viable State of Palestine’ within the pre-1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.”

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While the evidence confirms that the State of Palestine is recognized by 157 UN member states, there is no evidence in the provided search results or Wikipedia entries that specifically links a BRICS Foreign Ministers' call for pre-1967 borders and East Jerusalem as the capital to a meeting in May 2026.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2023 BRICS summit was the fifteenth annual BRICS summit, an international relations conference attended by the heads of state or heads of government of the five member states: Brazil, Russia, Indi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_BRICS_summit

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2025 BRICS summit was the seventeenth annual BRICS summit, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_BRICS_summit

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — As of September 2025, the State of Palestine is recognized as a sovereign state by 157 of the 193 member states of the United Nations (UN), or just over 81% of all UN members. It has been a non-member…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_P…

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Claim 2: “The creation of an ‘independent and viable State of Palestine’ was reaffirmed during the BRICS Foreign Ministers’ meeting that concluded on May 15, 2026.”

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The provided evidence contains general information about BRICS membership and the 17th BRICS summit in 2025, but there is no mention of a Foreign Ministers' meeting concluding on May 15, 2026, nor any statement regarding the reaffirmation of a State of Palestine during such a meeting.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2025 BRICS summit was the seventeenth annual BRICS summit, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_BRICS_summit

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