The Brazilian president said this Saturday, after a meeting with his counterpart, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, at the Belém Palace, that the relationship between Brazil and Portugal “will improve” and promised “more Brazilian investment” for the country.
“Many times we sin by not speaking”, the president of Brazil began by emphasizing, before promising that now the authorities of the two countries will speak more and will engage Brazilian and Portuguese businessmen in dialogue, because “Portugal and Brazil have extraordinary potential to increase the commercial flow”, he stressed.
But for that “we need to be more daring” and it is necessary “that both our businessmen and our ministers speak more and discuss more and project perspectives for the future in the financing of our industries,” he stressed.
And addressing the President of the Portuguese Republic, Lula da Silva said: “my country has devoted special attention to promoting growth” and in this task “Portugal has been a special partner. There are few countries in the world with which we have so much equity and common values.”
Recalling that the Portuguese, “in the most diverse situations, have always bet on Brazil, Lula da Silva said that he will strive to compensate for all this, bringing “more Brazilian jobs and investment to Portugal” and allowing more “Portuguese investment in Brazil”. . “.
For this reason, he commented that “he has high expectations regarding the business forum that will take place in Porto on Monday, as part of his official visit, and that will allow meetings between Brazilian and Portuguese businessmen.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who took office as head of state in Brazil in January this year, also referred to the challenges that the two countries must face and that “must be shared”, referring specifically to a growing extreme right, which has to face, the need to make Portuguese the “official language of the United Nations”, the fight against climate change, in which Portugal and Brazil can also be together in this fight and the importance of change in the Security Council of the United Nations, so that it has more countries and continents.
In statements to journalists, the two presidents showed understanding in various aspects and great complicity and informality.
The Brazilian President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, arrived in Lisbon this Friday for an official visit to Portugal, with a busy agenda, which includes the Luso-Brazilian summit that is taking place today at the Centro Cultural de Belém.
“The trip is part of the relaunch of Brazil’s diplomatic relations with its main partners, as happened with the visit to China, 10 days ago, and to the United States, Argentina and Uruguay at the beginning of this government”, indicated the Brazilian presidency, it’s a statement.
“About 252,000 Brazilians legally reside in Portugal, according to the data. This without counting Brazilians with Portuguese or other European nationality. According to estimates from the Brazilian consular offices in Portugal, the Brazilian community could be between 275,000 and 300,000 people”, recalled the Brazilian. Government, in order to emphasize the importance of this trip, the first to Europe since Lula took office on January 1.
Lula da Silva began today with a welcome ceremony with military honors at Praça do Império, in Lisbon, followed by another brief ceremony inside the Jerónimos Monastery, with the placement of a wreath on the tomb of Luís de Camões, accompanied by the Portuguese President, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
Subsequently, he held a meeting with his Portuguese counterpart at the Belém Palace, which was followed by an extended meeting of delegations.
Now he will have lunch with the Portuguese Prime Minister, António Costa, after which another of the highlights of today’s program will take place, the XIII Luso-Brazilian Summit.
After that, more than twice as many agreements should be signed than at the last summit between the two countries, in 2016.
The Brazilian government stressed that “the preparation for the meeting began at the end of last year, after the presidential elections”, in October 2022, in which Lula da Silva defeated Jair Bolsonaro.
Today ends with a state dinner hosted by the Portuguese President at the Palácio da Ajuda.
On Sunday, Lula da Silva’s agenda, for now, “is free,” said the Brazilian diplomat.
Source: TSF
