The visit of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, due to start on April 12, will have an ambitious program of signing many agreements and a large Brazilian delegation of about 300 people.
At the meetings, the President of Brazil will address economic and diplomatic issues, revealing the intention of the South American country to resume greater cooperation with developing countries and expand Brazil’s influence in the world after the mandate of former President Jair Bolsonaro, marked by great international prestige. insulation.
According to Brazilian diplomats, about 20 cooperation agreements will be signed between Brazil and China in various fields, focusing on science and technology, economy, foreign trade, culture, industry, defense and education.
About ten days before Lula da Silva’s trip to China, many bilateral agreements are being negotiated, 20 of which have already been confirmed, according to statements by Eduardo Páez Saboya, secretary for Asia and the Pacific at the Brazilian Foreign Ministry, “but that number could increase.”
One promising economic agreement is the activation of a $20bn (€18.6bn) Chinese financing facility to invest in projects in Brazil.
The South American country is also looking forward to signing a partnership agreement to develop a sixth-generation China-Brazil satellite, and at the initiative of Lula da Silva’s government, there are signs of a joint declaration with China on climate change and even the establishment of a Binational Climate Change Financing Fund.
Brazil and China are also predicted to discuss issues of global governance, issues of interest to the BRICS (a group formed by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), as well as the Brazilian proposal to create a group of countries that did not participate in the war provoked by the Russian invasion to Ukraine to negotiate peace in the region.
Xi Jinping has just returned from a state visit to Moscow where he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and presented Chinese proposals for peace in Ukraine, raising confidence that a war in Eastern Europe will be a sensitive issue and important in the Chinese leader’s meeting with the Brazilian leader.
During the visit, Lula da Silva is expected to attend a major business event that will be attended by at least 240 Brazilian business people, including those associated with agribusiness who accompany the government delegation on the trip, as well as businessmen and representatives of the Chinese government.
China is Brazil’s top agribusiness export destination, accounting for 31.9% of the sector’s overseas sales last year, according to the South American country’s agriculture ministry.
About 40 politicians are expected to take part in the programs of Lula da Silva’s visit to the Asian country, including ministers of the Brazilian government and invited parliamentarians.
The official program announced by the Brazilian government also includes a visit to Shanghai, China’s economic capital, where former Vice President Dilma Rousseff, who led Brazil from 2011 to 2016, will take over the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB).
At the end of the trip, Lula da Silva will have meetings with Brazil’s most important trading partners in just three months of her mandate. In January, the official traveled to Argentina; in February he was in the United States, Brazil’s second-largest trading partner and second only to China in trade, on a trip that also included a meeting between him and US President Joe Biden.
China has been Brazil’s largest trading partner since 2009 and one of the main sources of investment in Brazil. In 2022, trade between the two countries reached a record $150.5 billion (€139.4 billion).
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Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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