3 pacts inked with Brazil

Giving a fillip to bilateral ties, India and Brazil on Wednesday decided to expand trade and investment flows, while deepening collaboration in the fields of renewable energy, defence and cyber security. They signed three pacts, including one on cooperation in the environment sector. The decisions were taken during the first bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff.

Modi and Rousseff called for urgent progress on reforms of the United Nations, including the Security Council, by the time of the 70th anniversary of the UN in 2015.