Stating that BRICS comprising of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa would prove sceptics wrong, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Li Baodong told a media briefing here that the economic slowdown was due to external reasons than that of the internal issues.
Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the summit of the leaders of BRICS which is taking place on July 15-16 in Brazil during which he will hold his first meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Replying to questions about the probability of the summit giving a green signal to the Bank, Li said all the parties are making full use of financial channel to intensify consultations.
"Whether this summit will reach and agreement about the establishment of the Bank, we are fully confident about that," he said.
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The bank was mooted in 2012 to fund the infrastructure projects and approved during last year's summit in South Africa.
Seen as an attempt by the emerging economies to come up with their own bank to rival the World Bank and IMF, the BRICS Bank however was bogged down over difference on issues like start-up capital as well as its headquarters.
This however raised concerns that it may vest China with excessive influence. Beijing also reportedly wants the Bank's headquarters to be in Shanghai.
In view of this BRICS members reportedly discussed a proposal to have start-up capital of USD 50 billion with equal contributions from all the five countries.
Li said total size of the BRICS Bank is technical issue. It needs to be worked out through consultations among all the BRICS countries.