India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA) today discussed ways to strengthen their efforts for UN reforms, apart from deepening their strategic, political and economic ties. All the three countries are currently non-permanent members of the UN Security Council. Participating in the seventh Trilateral Commission meeting, Foreign Ministers S M Krishna, Antonio Patriota (Brazil) and Maite Nkoana-Mashabane (South Africa) reiterated their firm commitment to multilateralism and reaffirmed the need for the UN to become more responsive to and coherent with the priorities of developing countries. They emphasized the need for urgent reform of the UN Security Council, including expansion of permanent and non- permanent categories of its membership, with increased participation of developing countries in both categories.In a communiqu’ issued at the end of the meeting they reaffirmed their resolve to maintain their close coordination as well as to reach out to the broader UN membership in order to advance towards concrete results in the on-going intergovernmental negotiations on Security Council reform by the end of the current session of the UNGA. It says the Ministers underscored that the concurrent presence of all three IBSA countries in the Security Council during the year 2011 provides a unique opportunity to work closely together in order to bring their perspectives into the work of the Council and strengthen the voice of the South. Agreeing that terrorism was one of the most serious threats to international peace and security, and undermines social and economic development of democratic societies, they reiterated their strong condemnation of terrorism in all its forms and manifestations and stressed that there can be no justification, whatsoever, for any act of terrorism.