Global reform momentum builds as Brazil’s Lula da Silva, in New Delhi, insisted on immediate UN Security Council overhauls, prominently backing permanent slots for India and Brazil. The appeal, voiced after in-depth Modi discussions, amplifies G4 calls for equity.
Lula, addressing media post-Hyderabad House meets, traced G4’s 20-year fight for expansion. Amid worldwide strife, he warned of UN obsolescence without inclusivity. Reforms must empower intervention, he urged, via more permanent and rotating seats.
The 18-22 February itinerary featured AI Impact Summit participation, merging bilateral bonds with futuristic tech. Lula’s fondness for Modi shone through: sixth India visit, lauding twin democracies’ cultural clout and multilateral zeal.
Agenda highlights: Elevating trade-energy-defense-agri-climate-tech-AI-semicon-minerals-Global South partnerships. Ten agreements locked in on minerals, digital, traditional knowledge, health, SMEs, startups, broadcasting.
Bilateral trade pledge: Over $20B in five years. Shared anti-terror stance and multipolar ethos reaffirmed. Lula’s entourage: 14 ministers, corporate titans.
Echoing Modi’s Brasilia breakthrough (first in 57 years), G20 synergy, and 20-year milestone, pacts advance defense, nutrition, green energy, digital, industrial fronts.
‘India’s edge in AI, biotech, space opens doors for us,’ Lula noted. A new era dawns for Indo-Brazilian collaboration and UN equity.