BRICS leaders adopted the New Delhi Declaration at the summit in India, preserving consensus among an enlarged and politically diverse group while sidestepping its most divisive disputes. The declaration urged maximum restraint in the Middle East, condemned attacks on civilian infrastructure and peaceful nuclear facilities without assigning blame, reaffirmed support for a two-state solution and omitted any reference to Russia's war in Ukraine. It also criticized indiscriminate tariff increases and unilateral sanctions without naming the United States. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said BRICS was not against anyone, reflecting New Delhi's effort to retain strategic autonomy rather than position the group as an anti-Western bloc. The meeting provided a venue for Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to hold their highest-level known face-to-face talks since the Middle East war began. Pezeshkian described the discussions as positive and said Iran and the United Arab Emirates agreed to put the past aside and build a future together. Xi Jinping and Modi also agreed to strengthen business ties, transport links and efforts to address trade barriers, while Xi advanced a China-led BRICS open-source AI community for cooperation on large language models, training and seminars.