Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid will visit Brazil from October 14-17 to co-chair the sixth India-Brazil Joint Commission Meeting (JCM) with his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Alberto Figueiredo.
During the meeting, the two sides are expected to discuss the entire gamut of the India-Brazil Strategic Partnership – political, commercial, agriculture, science and technology, defence, culture, hydrocarbons, etc. They are also expected to discuss regional and international issues of mutual interest. Khurshid will also chair the annual Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) Regional Heads of Indian Mission (HOM) Conference in Rio de Janeiro on October 16-17.
India and Brazil share warm bilateral ties. In 2012-2013, bilateral trade between the two sides stood at $10.6 billion. Indian companies have made significant investments in Brazil in the fields of agriculture, IT, pharma, manufacturing, hydrocarbons, etc. Both sides have also seen a number of high level exchanges including the visit of Brazilian President Dilma Rouseff in May 2012 and the visit of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to participate in the Rio+20 Summit in June 2012.