Summit
26 March 2006
Tshwane - South African Foreign Minister, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, will
join her counterparts from India and Brazil, Foreign Ministers Dr Manmohan
Singh and Celso Amorim respectively for the third session of the
India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Ministerial Trilateral Commission in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil scheduled from Tuesday to Thursday, 28 to 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, Manmohan Singh and Celso Amorim 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, Manmohan Singh and Celso Amorim 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, Manmohan Singh and Celso Amorim,
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.
Enquiries: Ronnie Mamoepa
Cell: 082 990 4853
Issued by: Department of Foreign Affairs
26 March 2006
Source: SAPA
