India, Brazil agree on audio-visual exchange

NEW DELHI: India and Brazil today signed an agreement on increasing audio-visual co-production and exploring the possibility of co-productions in the field of broadcasting and cinema.

The agreement was signed by Information and Broadcasting Minister Priyaranjan Dasmunsi and Brazilian Minister for External Relations Celso Amorim.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and visiting Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva were present on the occasion.

This was one of seven agreements and memorandums of understanding on diverse fields signed between the two countries.

This included an MOU for implementing an arrangement regarding cooperation in augmentation of Brazilian Earth Station for receiving and processing data from Indian Remote Sensing Satellites. This was signed by Mr G Madhavan Nair, Secretary in the Department of Space, and Mr Amorim.

Other agreements included those in oil and education, in consonance with their growing trade and political ties in recent years.