Dr. Manmohan Singh accorded rousing welcome in Brazil
By ANIWednesday, April 14, 2010
BRASILIA - In the second leg of his tour to the United States and Brasil, Dr. Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister of India, was accorded a rousing welcome at the Brasilia Airbase on Wednesday.
Dr. Singh is here to attend for the fourth India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) and the Brazil, Russia, India, China (BRIC) summits to be held on April 15 and April 16 respectively.
Dr. Singh was received by Brazil”s Defence Minister Nelson Jobin.
The fourth IBSA summit will see Dr. Singh, Brazil President Lula da Silva and South AfricanPresident Jacob Zuma participating in the summit.
IBSA is a unique forum that brings together India, Brazil and South Africa on one platformto face and discuss ways to resolve common challenges.
All three countries are developing nations, plural, multi-cultural, multi-ethinic, multi-lingual and multi-religious.
After attending IBSA, Dr. Singh will take part in the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) summit on April 16. This is the second time that Brasilia is hosting the summit.
The BRIC grouping represents four major economies, and all of them are richly endowed with natural resources. Today, they are in a position to sustain higher growth rates.
BRIC countries together comprise 25.9 pecent of the world´s geographic area, 40 percent of the global population and 22 percent of global GDP.
Dr. Singh will return to India on the night of April 17. (ANI)
