The Hindu Business Line : PM leaves on nine-day visit to Brazil, Cuba

The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, today left on a nine-day visit to Brazil and Cuba for the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) and Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summits, which are expected to set the stage for a renewed South-South cooperation initiative.

Dr Singh, who will reach Brasilia tomorrow after an overnight stay at Frankfurt, will have bilateral meetings with President Mr Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and other Brazilian leaders on September 12, during which the two sides will sign as many as eight agreements.

The first IBSA summit will be held on the following day at the end of which the three-year-old grouping of the largest democracies in Asia, Africa and Latin America will sign five trilateral documents designed to bring them closer to each other, especially in the areas of agriculture, biofuels, information technology and trade.

The Fourteenth NAM Summit at Havana on September 15-16 will see the coming together of 116 member-states with a renewed resolve to project a new and contemporary vision of the movement and make it more relevant to the post-Cold War and post 9/11 world.

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