Weekly Report - 20 October 2011 (WR-11-42)

President Dilma Rousseff was in South Africa this week for the fifth summit of the Ibsa group (India, Brazil, South Africa), hosted this year by her counterpart, Jacob Zuma. In the Tshwane Declaration marking the summit, Zuma, Rousseff and India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reiterated their ambition to secure permanent seats on a reformed United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Part of the idea behind Ibsa was for these leading southern giants to push, as one, for UNSC reform. Unusually, all three have temporary seats on the UNSC this year, giving them a unique opportunity to demonstrate their growing global diplomatic weight to the permanent members (China, Russia, the UK, France and the US).

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