Indo- Brazil cooperation in nuclear research
New Delhi: India and Brazil will soon launch technical cooperation in nuclear research, BBC reported today quoting reports from Rio De Janeiro.
The radio broadcast monitored here said a decision to this effect had been taken during Prime Minister Gandhi’s current Brazilian tour.
An agreement will shortly be signed, the radio added.
Brasília: Prime Minister Indira Gandhi today called for a “global strategy” of development and integrated programme of international cooperation and for a detente “not based on acceptance of spheres of influence but on a just world order”.
Mrs Gandhi, who was speaking at a banquet given by President Arthur Da Costa E. D. Silva of Brazil, said widening disparities between developed and developing countries had given rise to dissatisfaction, frustration and bitterness in large parts of the world.
The developing countries, she said, looked for help to achieve true economic freedom “but our people are now asking questions, is the present pattern of aid being regarded as repayable charity or perhaps investment for political support, we are chary of these new bonds which might increase our dependence on dominant economies”.
Earlier, proposing a toast for the Indian Prime Minister and for the Indo- Brazil friendship, President Silva declared that fate had directed India and Brazil “towards reciprocal understanding and union on our forces in the struggle for future greatness and prosperity.”
He declared that their size and the vitality of their peoples provided India and Brazil a real strength that cannot be ignored by great powers of our days, among whom we will certainly be placed in the near future.
The President announced that the two governments had reached understanding on general lines and agreement for cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and this would be signed soon.
The banquet came at the end of the second day of Mrs Gandhi’s four- day visit to Brazil. Earlier in the day she called on the President, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and the presiding officers of the two Houses of Parliament.