In a statement released on Thursday night (9), the White House reported that US President Joe Biden reaffirmed the “strategic importance of the relationship between the US and Brazil” in the meeting with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro ( PL),
In an interview with CNN after the meeting, Bolsonaro said he was “amazed by Biden”. “It was exceptional, I’m very happy. (…) I am not wrong to speak in this way. We spent almost half an hour talking privately,” said the Brazilian president.
The government officials pledged to maintain their commercial collaboration, “including through US support for Brazil’s candidacy for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the US government said.
In addition to the economic partnership, Biden and Bolsonaro also addressed sustainable development in the Amazon region, “to drastically reduce deforestation”. In the part of the meeting open to the press, the Brazilian president stated that he feels Brazil’s sovereignty in the region is threatened.
“We often feel threatened in our sovereignty in this region. [a Amazônia], but the fact is that Brazil preserves its territory very well. More than 85% of the Brazilian Amazon is preserved. Our environmental legislation is very strict,” Bolsonaro declared.
Finally, the White House highlighted the partnership between the two countries “at a time when the world faces a cascade of crises, from Russia’s war in Ukraine to global warming and the recovery from the pandemic”. For the US government, good relations are vital to “guarantee peace”.
Source: CNN Brasil
