5th IBSA Summit PM's Address

5th IBSA Summit PM's Address

• The year 2011 has special salience on account of the fact that we are all Members of the United Nations Security Council.
• The visit of an IBSA delegation to Damascus in August this year and their interaction with the Syrian leadership demonstrated the political role which IBSA can usefully play
  
• The early conclusion of India-SACU-Mercosur Trilateral Trade Arrangement would give a boost to South-South trade.
• We should coordinate our positions in the run up to the G-20 Summit in Cannes to ensure that the priorities of the developing economies are adequately reflected.
• I have pleasure in extending a most cordial invitation to you all for the next Summit meeting of IBSA in India in 2013