22/01/2023 –
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvapresident of Brazil, arrived in Argentina this Sunday to have a series of meetings with Alberto Fernandez and on Tuesday to participate in the VII CELAC summit, which will also arrive, in the midst of a great controversy in the country’s political circle, the Venezuelan Nicolás Maduro.
The Brazilian president arrived at the Military Ballooning Station of the Jorge Newbery Airport after 9:00 p.m. This was announced by the official account of the Casa Rosada on Twitter with a video. Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero was in charge of receiving the president.
Lula arrived with his entourage, including the foreign minister, Mauro Vieira; the Minister of Economy, fernando haddad and the main adviser on foreign policy, Celso Amorim.
“We shipped to Argentina, then Uruguay. Tomorrow I participate in the Celac. Let’s renew ties. Brazil returns to the international scene and will work to strengthen Mercosur”, the president of Brazil had posted.
The meeting that Lula and Alberto Fernández will have in Buenos Aires is part of what the Argentine ambassador to Brazil called the “relaunch of the relationship between Argentina and Brazil”, after four years in which the political relationship was very complex due to ideological differences. between the President and the former president Jair Bolsonaro.
Brazil has a growing economy with negative inflation and the change of command at the Planalto Palace opened the doors for the Fernández government to advance a new link with the neighboring country. The President’s idea remains the same. It is necessary to deepen the commercial integration of the two countries and one of the ways to do it is by having a close relationship around the Néstor Kirchner gas pipeline.