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1) China chaired the first BRICS Sherpas meeting of 2022, which was held virtually on January 18-19, 2022. The members expressed their gratitude to India for its chairmanship of BRICS in 2021.
2) BRICS is a coalition of five major emerging economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
3) Sanjay Bhattacharyya, India's BRICS Sherpa, highlighted the significant achievement of the BRICS foreign ministers in bringing about a document on the strengthening and reform of the multilateral systems.