Brazil and India Discuss Trade and Regional Development
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Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota meets his Indian counterpart Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna to bolster strategic trade and economic ties. Here are the details.

Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota met his Indian counterpart Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna on Monday in New Delhi to discuss trade, politics and regional developments.

Brazil and India are both members of the BRICS grouping that also includes China and Russia.

The meeting between the two foreign ministers was part of the fifth India-Brazil Joint Commission.

Patriota was accompanied by a 20-member delegation that aims to coordinate economic and trade policies between the two countries.

The meeting hopes to boost cooperation in the fields of science and technology, defense and agriculture.

India and Brazil have together closed ranks on various issues of international concern as part of their rising economies.

The Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last met President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff on the margins of the IBSA Summit in Pretoria in October.

Brazil is India's largest trading partner in Latin America and the Caribbean, with bilateral trade between the 2 countries showing a rise of U.S. dollars from $ 828-million in 2000, to $ 7.7-billion dollars in 2010.
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