Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday told the leaders of Brazil and South Africa that the IBSA grouping can send a message of “unity, cooperation and humanity” at a time when the world appears fragmented and divided.

At the meeting with Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Johannesburg, Modi said there is no place for “double standards on terrorism” and called for united action. In this context, he proposed institutionalising the National Security Advisers-level dialogue between the three countries.

He also proposed setting up an IBSA fund to promote climate-resilient agriculture and a digital innovation alliance to enable sharing of digital public infrastructure such as the unified payments interface

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