India and Brazil agree to push for UN Security Council reform
India and Brazil on Friday decided to step up efforts to push the UN reforms, particularly the Security Council and signed half a dozen agreements in areas ranging from science and biotechnology to cultural exchanges.
Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff on Friday began an official state visit to India holding wide-ranging talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh following the conclusion of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) summit in New Delhi.
During their 90-minute talks, PM Singh and President Rousseff also set a trade target of 15 billion dollars by 2015 and noted that bilateral trade and investment had grown by leaps and bounds. The two sides also signed six documents to enhance cooperation in the fields of science and technology, education and culture.
Noting that India and Brazil had emerged as “new growth poles” of the evolving global economy, PM Singh said the two countries had agreed to enhance consultations on reform of global governance system, particularly in the context of U.N. reforms and in the G-20 process.
“We have agreed to step up our efforts, particularly towards the reform of the United Nations Security Council as G-4 partners,” the Prime Minister said. India, Brazil, Japan and Germany are part of the G-4 grouping that's pitching for a permanent seat in a reformed UN Security Council.
The two leaders also undertook a comprehensive review of bilateral relations, including the work of the inter-governmental Joint Commission Meeting which met last December in New Delhi.
“We directed our officials to take specific steps to exploit the full potential in areas such as trade, education, science and technology, environment, defense, space and nuclear energy” said the Indian Prime Minister.
Noting that bilateral trade and investment flows have grown by leaps and bounds, PM Singh said he and Ms. Rousseff were in “full agreement that these can be enhanced even further.”
“We agreed to take measures to promote greater business interaction,” he said.
The two countries also decided to reconstitute the India-Brazil CEOs Forum. Bilateral trade reached an unprecedented figure of 9.2 billion dollars in 2011.
India gave full support to President Rousseff’s initiative ‘Science without Borders’, which is aimed at upgrading scientific and technological talent. “We look forward to receive Brazilian students in our institutes of science and engineering,” sadi PM Singh.
Underlining a high degree of convergence between India and Brazil on global issues, PM Singh said the two countries shared “common perspectives on environmental issues” and wished Brazil success in hosting Rio+20 Conference on sustainable development in June this year.
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for the reason why ...the UK is the tool of Pentagon....the France is the tool of CIA...
You're an ignoramus.
Would they have sent their troops to rid the Falklands of Argentinian forces in 1982?
One thing that the current permanent members of the Security Council have in common is that they have put the existence of their nations on the line, to one extent or another, to defeat evil. Could Brazil or India make the same claim? Nations with a better claim; Australia, Canada, New Zealand.
Brazil and India. An amazing joke!
“Could Brazil or India make the same claim? Nations with a better claim; Australia, Canada, New Zealand.”
Yes, and if you do your homework, something you are incapable of doing, UK and France OPENLY support Brazil and China to become permanent member of the security council of the UN (meaning with veto power).
UK, France, Russia (aren't superpowers and are financially broke)...US and China are superpowers, though one is financially broke and both challenge each other. They all work together but if they smell opportunities to finish each other, they'll do it.
In my opinion, Brazil (net creditor), Japan (debtor), India (net creditor) and Germany (creditor though on the brink of becoming a huge debtor) should not join the UN which is a waste of money and is losing it's credibility.
All political institutions must regularly seek and conduct reform. It is healthy. Change for the better keeps them relevant.
The UN is one way humanity unites. Perhaps it is the embryo of world government, with a single people. No us. No them. Rather unity.
If the UN is flawed, then the fault for its flaws lies with its constituent members.
The UN tries to work on principle. The UN Charter is a practical international treaty which upholds commonly shared high and just principles, namely:
“The Purposes of the United Nations are:
1. To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace;
2.To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace;
3.To achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion; and
4.To be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations in the attainment of these common ends.”
Resolutions are debated, voted on and sometimes acted on. It may be an imperfect instrument, but it is the best institution we have to work together for our common good.
Security Council membership is in itself a weighty responsibility. If you vote for a resolution, you are expected to help enforce it.
If France and the UK was forced out,, followed by the USA ,
The UN would be reduced to
RUSSIA-CHINA-INDIA-BRAZIL-
And the replacements of [3] would probably be.
South Africa – European Union- and Saudi Arabia,
Seconded by
Argentina, Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey
And the world would go to rack and ruin..
Or course I could well be wrong,
But , well worse has happened,
As for the other [3] they would probably form some kind of federation based loosely on the British Commonwealth,
And would probably take at least 60 countries with them .
Just a thought
India a net creditor? Are you mad?
What about the 60Billion deficit they have AND the latest wheeze of backdating tax up to 50 years for commercial contracts?
Corruption never caused war to Brazil neither India and poverty has decreased substantially in both countries with or without UN's Security Council reform claim.
Not to mention that the last war engaged by Brazil was WWII at the same side of Australia, Canada, U.S., U.K., France, etc.
Brazil would never promote a war, maybe India against Pakistan but that's all. Anyone who knows a little about Brazil knows that military area is totally neglected.
Glorious.
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