IBSA ministers to meet Tuesday
March 7th, 2011 - 9:38 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) The foreign ministers of IBSA — a grouping of India, Brazil and South Africa — will hold wide-ranging discussions here Tuesday to expand political and economic ties between the three large economies straddling three continents.
External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna will hold talks with Nkoana Mashabane, South Africa’s minister of international relations and cooperation, and his Brazilian counterpart Antonio de Aguiar Patriota on a host of trilateral issues.
The ministerial meeting will firm up the agenda for the next IBSA summit to be held in South Africa later this year.
Global issues like UN reforms, restructuring of global economic governance and the festering crisis in the Middle East are also expected to figure in the discussions.
The three ministers are also expected to discuss a free trade agreement between IBSA members that has the potential to multiply their economic ties manifold.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had made a strong pitch for urgent reform of the United Nations and pushed for an early conclusion of an international convention to combat terrorism at the IBSA summit held in Brasilia in April last year.
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