Guwahati, June 29: After successfully holding the South Asian Games this year, the city is all ready to host another prestigious event - the second Brics Youth Summit.
The three-day summit, beginning Friday here, will focus on enhanced people-to-people contact among the BRICS member states of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, especially the youth. The theme of the summit is youth as bridge for intra-Brics exchanges.
Brics is an acronym for an association of five major emerging national economies - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
The group was originally known as Bric before the inclusion of South Africa in 2010. Jim O'Neill of investment bank Goldman Sachs coined the acronym in 2001 in the paper Building Better Global Economic BRICs.
Around 150 delegates will participate in the summit.
India took over the presidency of the inter-governmental association of Brics on February 15 this year. The first Brics Youth Summit was held in Russia in July 2015.
Chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal today underscored the need to display Assam's rich cultural mosaic to the visiting Brics ministers, heads of executive authorities on youth affairs and youth representatives.
"Assam's resplendent culture must be projected in full splendour before the visiting distinguished dignitaries," he said.
Sonowal asked the officials to extend warm hospitality to the visiting dignitaries in a traditional manner, which the state is well known for since ages. "When they go back home, they must carry with them fond memories of Assam and its warm, generous and hospitable people," he said.
The inaugural session will witness addresses by Brics members, agenda to work out the working sessions followed by cultural programme from India.
On the second day, there will be four working sessions followed by a banquet dinner with cultural exchanges and performances from participants of Brics nations.
On the last day, a presentation of working session reports will be followed by finalisation and adoption of the Guwahati Brics Call to Action on Youth.
