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South Africa is hosting the next IBSA summit
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May 09, 2008, 15:00
Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma will host her counterparts from India and Brazil for the fifth India-Brazil-SA ministerial trilateral commission meeting on Sunday.
Indian Minister of External Affairs Pranab Mukherjee and Brazilian Minister of External Relations Celso Amorim will attend the meeting in Somerset West, the Foreign Affairs Department said in a statement today.
The event would coincide with the first IBSA joint naval exercises off the Cape coast from May 5 to 16.
Since its inception in 2003, the IBSA dialogue forum had made significant progress in providing an influential international platform from where the development challenges of the south could be prioritised and the marginalisation of developing countries countered.
The ministerial meetings were expected to discuss global multilateral issues, such as global governance, the millennium development goals, international trade, intellectual property rights, climate change, biodiversity, sustainable development, racism and xenophobia, disarmament and non-proliferation, and peaceful uses of nuclear energy.
Progress made within sectoral cooperation since the 4th ministerial meeting in New Delhi on July 17, 2007 and the second summit in Tshwane on October 17, 2007, would also be reviewed the department said.
The third IBSA summit is scheduled to take place in New Delhi, India on October 15, 2008. – Sapa
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