Shanghai: Indian banker and New Development Bank chief (NDB) K V Kamath has said that cooperation between the five BRICS countries will be strengthened during Chinese presidency over the bloc in 2017. Kamath made the comment in an interview with Xinhua news agency at the NDB headquarters in Shanghai on Friday.
This year opens the second decade of the emerging-market bloc which groups Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. China will host the ninth BRICS leaders' summit in the coastal city of Xiamen in September.