South Africa, India and Brazil have agreed to boost their campaign for permanent seats on the UN Security Council in order to achieve "concrete results" by September 2007.
The foreign affairs ministers of the above mentioned countries met in New Delhi, India, where they were co-chairing the Trilateral Commission of the India-Brazil-SA Dialogue Forum (Ibsa) which co-ordinates the actions of the three countries when dealing with international issues.
The three countries, as well as Japan, Germany and some other African nations, have been campaigning for over two years for permanent seats on an expanded UN Security Council.
The campaign started floundering towards the end of last year because the AU and other main campaigners couldn't agree on common key points, with some members, the African contingent, wanted veto rights while the other members (India, Brazil, Japan and Germany) thought that asking for veto rights would jeopardise the campaign.
On the 17th July, the three ministers agreed to pursue permanent seats on an urgent basis, with a view to achieving concrete results by the end of the 61st UN General Assembly". The 61st session ends on September 17 this year.
It is likely that Dlamini-Zuma also discussed the renewed push for permanent seats when she met Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after the Ibsa meeting.
However, it was not clear whether the three countries had adopted a new strategy for pursuing permanent seats in order to give to the flagging campaign new momentum.
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