When Cancun couldn't there was all sorts of speculation about how we might see a breakdown of global trade into a whole string of bilateral arrangements. These predictions seem to be being borne out: but not, it seems, as anyone foresaw. Lula, as Stephen notes, has been in India, and is talking almost eschatalogically about the future bilateral relations between India and Brazil:

"India and Brazil can together build a strong force that can change the trade geography of the world,"

The new found confidence of the Brazilian president reflects a reality which is changing much more rapidly than anyone could have forseen even as recently as last September. We have often noted on this page the way the economic face of Latin America is being steadily change by the growing importance of China in the world economy.

Now it is the turn of India to make it's presence felt. Among other things Brazil has signed a framework agreement with New Delhi on co-operation in outer space.:

By another broad agreement, it also plans to launch a small satellite on an Indian launcher and also set up a ground station in that country to receive earth observation data from Resourcesat-1, the remote sensing satellite launched by ISRO last October.

While the Brazilian micro-satellite is meant for atmospheric studies, the details are yet to be worked out, an ISRO spokesman said.

This is part of an agreement on a broad co-operation programme signed by the ISRO Chairman, G. Madhavan Nair, and the President of Brazil's space agency AEB, Luiz Bevilacqua, in New Delhi on Sunday, according to an ISRO release.

The two agencies plan to pursue joint research in space and atmospheric sciences and exchange proposals for remote sensing applications.

ISRO said the framework agreement would strengthen the ties established under an MoU of March 2002. The two agencies have held several discussions to identify areas of mutual interest.

The External Affairs Minister, Yashwant Sinha, and his Brazilian counterpart, Celso Amorim, signed the framework agreement in New Delhi.

The Brazilian President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, was present.

Mapping Maldives

Meanwhile, the National Remote Sensing Agency, the Hyderabad-based autonomous arm of the Department of Space, has been enlisted to help create satellite-based digital mapping of the Maldives.

The national body will provide satellite imaging and aerial services and help set up a remote sensing unit in the Maldives to analyse and update data.

According to an MoU signed in Male, the project, said to meet a crucial need of that Government, will begin by the end of this month, ISRO said.

The project involves creation of medium-scale maps of the Maldives and large-scale maps of selected areas. "Along with ground reference points, these maps will be used for generating a GIS system which can be updated periodically," the release said.

NRSA will also assist in setting up the centre at Male for maintaining GIS and for using satellite remote sensing data for thematic studies of land and oceans. It will train scientists from the Maldives in running the centre and interpreting the remote sensing data.
Source: Walletwatch India

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