Foreign Minister Wang Yi (right) talks with Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, South Africa's Minister of International Relations and Cooperation (left), and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, before a meeting of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) foreign ministers in New York on Thursday. The meeting was held on the sidelines of the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly. [Amy He / China Daily]