In Modi, Lula meet: Climate change, defence cooperation, security council reform

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Sunday agreed to continue working towards reform in the UN Security Council (UNSC) under the framework of the G4 and L.69 groupings as well as by holding regular bilateral coordination meetings. The G4 nations — Brazil, Germany, India and Japan — support each others’ bid for permanent UNSC membership. The L.69, a group of developing countries from Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific (Small Island Developing States), also supports UNSC reform. On Sunday, Modi and Lula expressed disappointment over the Intergovernmental Negotiations on UN...