President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) said, this Thursday (3), that he will hold discussions with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his government to deal with issues such as the flow of Venezuelan immigrants on the border with Roraima and care with the Yanomami indigenous people who live in the region.
When asked about the lack of immigration control at the border, during an interview with radio stations in the Amazon region, Lula said that he has “a total interest in making Roraima return to normality, even with fewer Venezuelans coming to Brazil.”
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“We are normalizing our relationship with Venezuela. It has already been agreed with President Maduro. We’ll talk to him again. It is necessary to make a settlement of a debt that Venezuela has with Brazil and we are settling that. We want to discuss including immigration,” he said.
The president declared that the country will welcome “everyone who wants to come to Brazil from anywhere”, but that it is important that people can return to Venezuela as the country returns to “normality”.
He also said that there are talks with the Venezuelan government to normalize the situation of trucks stopped at the border unable to enter Venezuelan territory: “We also need to guarantee trade and relations.”
“We are going to have an intense policy in the Amazon, and in Roraima as well. We are going to discuss with Maduro the question of Venezuela, of our borders in Roraima, so that we can take care of our forest together”, said Lula at another time, when asked about the treatment given to immigrants and indigenous people in the border state.
Lula also said that one of the points to be dealt with is the “serious problem of caring for the Yanomami”: “That people was almost destroyed by the anti-indigenous policy that Brazil had and we want to treat the indigenous people in the most civilized and affectionate way possible” , pointed out the president.
Source: CNN Brasil
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