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IBSA Foreign Ministers to Meet in Brazil to prepare for IBSA
Summit Tshwane - South African Foreign Minister Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma
will join Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim and Indian Minister of State
for External Affairs Anand Sharma for the third session of the India-Brazil-South
Africa (IBSA) Ministerial Trilateral Commission in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil scheduled
from Tuesday - Thursday, 28-30 March 2006. Minister Dlamini Zuma's participation
in the Ministerial Trilateral Commission comes within the context of South Africa's
priority to promote South-South co-operation for increased market access, trade
and investment. The IBSA Forum has committed itself to the goal of developing
countries successfully achieving, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as a
core strategy in the international fight against underdevelopment, hunger and
poverty. In addition, the Forum has reconfirmed the importance of obtaining
new and additional financial resources for fighting poverty and financing for
development and committed itself to working together to devise means to make the
multilateral financial institutions genuinely open to participation by, and fully
accountable to, the entire global constituency. Ministers Dlamini Zuma,
Celso Amorim and Anand Sharma will, in addition to evaluating progress in the
afore-listed areas, discuss progress made in the Working Groups on Trade and Investment,
Information Society, Science and Technology, Education, Energy, Defence, Tourism,
Agriculture, Culture, Transport, Climate Change, Health and Social Development.
Ministers Dlamini Zuma, Celso Amorim and Anand Sharma will also commence
preparations for the IBSA Summit to be held in September this year in Brazil and
review the work of the IBSA Business Council since its launch last year. Discussions
between Minister Dlamini Zuma, Celso Amorim and Anand Sharma will focus on: - The
comprehensive reform of the United Nations and all its institutions;
- The
global fight against terrorism;
- Peace and security;
- The impact
on globalisation on the South;
- The World Trade Organisation Talks; and
- Sustainable and social development.
The Ministerial Trilateral
Commission will be preceded by a meeting of senior officials. The South African
delegation will be led by Foreign Affairs Director-General Dr Ayanda Ntsaluba. Minister
Dlamini Zuma is expected to return to South Africa on Saturday, 1 April 2006. Issued
by Ronnie Mamoepa on 082 990 4853 Department of Foreign Affairs
Private
Bag X152
Tshwane
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