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    ⁠⁠India, Brazil sign six key pacts

    Posted 09 Jul 2025

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    Agreements were signed during the Indian Prime Minister's state visit to Brazil.

    • Indian PM was also conferred with Brazil’s highest civilian award, the Grand Collar of the National Order of the Southern Cross.

    Key Agreements 

    • Agreement on Cooperation in Combating International Terrorism and Transnational Organized Crime.
    • Memorandum on the exchange of large-scale digital solutions to support digital transformation.
    • MoU between Brazil’s EMBRAPA and India’s Council of Agricultural Research for collaboration in renewable energy and agricultural research.
    • Exchange and mutual protection of classified information.
    • MoU on intellectual property and also announced the establishment of a ministerial-level mechanism to monitor trade, commerce, and investment.

    Priority Pillars for the Next Decade: Defence and Security, food and nutritional security, energy transition and climate change, etc

    About India-Brazil Relations

    • Global Cooperation: Strategic Partnership from 2006.
    • Work closely at plurilateral fora such as BRICS, BASIC, G-20, G-4, IBSA, and larger multilateral bodies such as the UN, WTO, UNESCO, and WIPO
    • Trade: In 2024-25, bilateral trade reached USD 12.20 billion with India in trade surplus.
    • Defence Cooperation:  A defence cooperation agreement was ratified in 2006, which created a Joint Defence Committee (JDC) as an institutional mechanism.
    • Renewable Energy: Brazil became the co-founder member of Global Biofuel Alliance.
      • Brazil ratified the International Solar Alliance (ISA) Agreement in 2022.
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