Diplomats from Kazakhstan, Nigeria and Indonesia arrived in New Delhi on Tuesday to attend the BRICS Foreign Ministers’ Meeting scheduled for May 14-15. The Ministry of External Affairs welcomed First Deputy FM Yerzahan Ashikbayev, Permanent Secretary Dunoma Umar Ahmed, and Indonesian FM Sugiono

The disagreement reportedly escalated to a point where Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov intervened in an attempt to calm tensions between the two sides