South-South Cooperation: India, Brazil and South Africa Formalize Relationship
The Times of India reported that at the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Trilateral Commission meeting, the foreign ministers of the three countries unveiled an ambitious programme for cooperation in areas such as health, IT, civil aviation and defence. IBSA plan to launch a trilateral business forum to facilitate linkages between the private sector in the three countries, to work towards the "early reform of the UN to make it more democratic", to back each other for permanent seats on a reformed UN Security Council (the Hindu Times) and to support each other on WTO issues.
For background information on the trilateral relationship read post from Jan 30, 2004.