Vikramjit Singh Sahney

Created in 2003, the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Trilateral Dialogue Forum is a unique model of trans-national co-operation, as the three countries come from three different continents and yet share similar worldviews and aspirations.

It has become instrumental for promoting ever closer coordination on global issues between three large multicultural and multiracial democracies of Asia, South America and Africa, and contributed to enhancing trilateral India-Brazil-South Africa cooperation in sectoral areas. The importance of the IBSA Dialogue Forum goes beyond its positive impact on India-Brazil-South Africa relations.The Forum, consisting of three large developing countries, provides a framework that will give additional impetus to further contacts between Asian, South American and African developing countries, thus contributing to strengthening South-South cooperation.

Recently the IBSA business Summit was organized at New Delhi (between 13october to 15th October 2008) that explored potential areas of co-operation between the three countries in the area of Agriculture & Food Processing, Energy (Power, Bio-Fuels, Oil & Gas), ICT & Enabled services, Pharma & Healthcare, Minerals & Mining, Transport & Connectivity, Tourism and Financial Services. It was attended by high powered delegation of government officials and business fraternity to benefit from exclusive opportunity to interact and have business meetings with the Indian counterparts in Brazil and South Africa. The platform also provided the direct platform to the delegates to be a part of the business session with the three Head of States from India, Brazil and South Africa. Mr. Vikramjit Sahney has been part of IBSA business summit as also the member of Prime Minister delegation for same for over 2 years now. Some of the key areas of coordination, cooperation and joint declarations are as follows:

POLITICAL CONSULTATION AND CO-ORDINATION ON GLOBAL ISSUES :The Prime Minister of India, the President of Brazil and the President of South Africa reaffirmed their commitment to the promotion of peace, security and sustainable economic and social development in the world and in their respective regions. Some of the key areas of trilateral co-operation and work has been identified under following broad categories:

		ACTION AGAINST HUNGER AND POVERTY

		AGRICULTURE

		INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND STABILITY

		CONDEMNATION OF INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM

		ENERGY

		TRANSPORTATION & CIVIL AVIATION CAPACITY BUILDING BETWEEN IBSA COUNTRIES IN THE AREAS OF DIGITAL INCLUSION, E-GOVERNMENT & GOVERNANCE AIMING AT REDUCING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE IN THEIR SOCIETIES.

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