AHEAD of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Brazil to attend the five-nation summit of BRICS on July 14 and 15, this 1980 batch Indian Foreign Service officer and MEA secretary in charge of economic relations -- Ms Sujata Mehta landed up in Brazil to work on what could finally be known as Fortaleza Declaration. Mehta is Modi’s Sherpa for the summit being held at Fortaleza, the north-eastern coastal city of Brazil. During Manmohan Singh’s regime, the role of a Sherpa...
