New Delhi, April 13, (IRNA) Expressing interest in having civil nuclear cooperation with India, Brazil Friday indicated that it would adopt a positive approach with regard to New Delhi's case at the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG).

In this regard, a high-level Brazilian delegation is expected to visit India to discuss civil nuclear energy cooperation issue, visiting Foreign Minister Celso Amorim told a joint press conference with Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma after their talks here.

"We have a strong cooperation in the energy sector and are also looking at other sciences, including nuclear energy for peaceful purposes," he said.

"There are good prospects of cooperation, of course, within the established safeguards agreement that we have.

Brazil is mindful of that and I hope India is also of the same view," said Amorim before concluding his four-day visit here.

He said Brazil would see what "positive and pragmatic" steps could be taken towards civil nuclear cooperation with India.

Asked whether Brazil would support India's case at 45-nation NSG, he said his country was "open-minded" on it.

Brazil is planning to send a delegation of its National Nuclear Energy Commission here to discuss the issue, he said.

After the civil nuclear deal with the US, India is required to seek changes in NSG's guidelines to allow the international community to have cooperation in the field with it and Brazil is a key member of the grouping.

Amorim said the two countries have an agreement on science and technology that provided an umbrella for concrete action in the field of nuclear energy.

After two-day meeting of the Joint Commission, India and Brazil also decided to set a bilateral trade target of 10 billion dollars by 2010.

The two sides emphasised the importance of creating effective mechanisms to diversify exports both ways and to promote mutual investments, as well as to increase the exchange of trade delegations, a joint communique issued after the meeting said.

The joint communique said the two ministers pledged that India and Brazil would work jointly to set up an international market for ethanol fuel so as to decrease dependence on fossil fuels and to favour use of clean energies.

The cooperation in bio-fuels will be subject of talks during the visit of Brazilian President Lula Da Silva in June.