Adhemar Gabriel Bahadian, Brazilian
Ambassador in Italy, representing his country, and Mario Lubetkin, IPS Director General, signed an agreement on Tuesday 10 March in Rome.

Brazil has signed a new agreement to support IPS activities, especially to strengthen information flows among countries in the South recognising the changing global geography of power. There is a special focus on communication from and between three major democracies in the South: India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA).

The South American country has been a member of the IPS Core Group of donors since 2005. It is the main country of the South in this group, which includes Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Spain, and Belgium as well as United Nations, the World Bank, Foundations and Non-Governmental organizations of the Netherlands, Japan, United States and Germany.

Carlos Roberto Tiburcio de Oliveira, special advisor to the Brazilian Presidency General Secretariat and his country’s representative to the IPS Core Group, stressed his satisfaction with the new agreement between his Government and IPS.

Tiburcio said “this agreement confirms the interest of Brazil in promoting communication from the South within the new international reality, and we decided to coordinate this effort with IPS, a global news agency internationally renowned, professional and independent which carries out many initiatives related to development information and civil society but most of all, informs about the South to place it more and more on the global agenda”.

“This new agreement will encourage efforts and those, who like us, face this challenges” Tiburcio added.