PM to meet leaders of Brazil, South Africa on Wednesday
The meeting is expected to come out with a joint declaration as also signing of MoU and agreements on public administration, higher education, health and medicines, social development, cultural cooperation and energy.
By PTI |
PRETORIA: Seeking to unlock the potential of the South, leaders from India, Brazil and South Africa will meet here on Wednesday to give a new thrust to their trilateral initiative which seeks to take the trade volume to $10 billion in the next few years.
Meeting under the banner "Second India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Summit", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, South African President Thabo Mbeki and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva would be looking at ways to make the relationship between the three countries more "tangible".
As Ambassador Jerry Matjila, head of of Asia and Middle East section at South Africa's Foreign Affairs Department, put it, "IBSA is about business, IBSA is about unlocking the potential of the South".
Besides deepening South-South cooperation through concrete projects and programmes in key focus areas of trilateral cooperation, the meeting is also expected to provide an opportunity to the leaders to coordinate joint positions on issues of global importance.
The meeting is expected to come out with a joint declaration as also signing of memoranda of understanding and agreements on public administration, higher education, health and medicines, social development, cultural cooperation and energy.
The Prime Minister during the two-day stay will hold bilateral meetings with leaders of South Africa and Brazil, both members of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG).
Meeting under the banner "Second India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Summit", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, South African President Thabo Mbeki and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva would be looking at ways to make the relationship between the three countries more "tangible".
As Ambassador Jerry Matjila, head of of Asia and Middle East section at South Africa's Foreign Affairs Department, put it, "IBSA is about business, IBSA is about unlocking the potential of the South".
Besides deepening South-South cooperation through concrete projects and programmes in key focus areas of trilateral cooperation, the meeting is also expected to provide an opportunity to the leaders to coordinate joint positions on issues of global importance.
The meeting is expected to come out with a joint declaration as also signing of memoranda of understanding and agreements on public administration, higher education, health and medicines, social development, cultural cooperation and energy.
The Prime Minister during the two-day stay will hold bilateral meetings with leaders of South Africa and Brazil, both members of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG).
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