Bolsonaro announced an Amazonian summit in Colombia and refuted Macron: "Brazil is priceless"

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has downplayed offers of international aid against fires in the Amazon stating that "Brazil has no price" and announced a meeting on 6 September in Leticia, Colombia, of all Amazonian countries, with the exception of Venezuela.

After receiving Chilean President Sebastián Piñera, Bolsonaro was instructed to announce the presidential summit countries from the countries of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (OCTA) in Leticia, Colombian city of the Triple Border with Peru and Brazil.

"We will meet with these presidents, except for Venezuela, to discuss our unique policy preservation of the environment as well as exploring a sustainable form of our region, "said Bolsonaro, who defends the cessation of indigenous reserves to allow economic activity such as mining.

In Bolsonaro's opinion, the meeting in Colombia should aim to regional responses on "defense of the sovereignty of every country that owns part of the Amazon rainforest". Brazil holds 60% and is part of the CTOA in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela, although the latter was not invited.

la France It owns part of the Amazon rainforest with its overseas territory, French Guiana, but none has been invited.

With Piñera, Bolsonaro signed an agreement the environment and the defense of indigenous peoples, especially since Santiago will host the meeting of the United Nations Committee on Climate Change in November (COP-25)

Increased use of pastures for agricultural activities and intentional fires in indigenous reserves and protected areas in Brazil have caused an unprecedented confrontation between Brazil and France, with President Bolsonaro and Emmanuel Macron as protagonists.

Piñera explained that he had offered four planes to fight forest fires, but that each country was sovereign to accept or not to help, in reference to Bolsonaro's refusal to receive $ 20 million proposed by Macron by the G7, a group of the seven richest countries in the world.

After accepting 10 million pounds of aid from Britain, Bolsonaro again spoke about Macron's G7 bid: "It looks like our price is $ 20 million, (but) Brazil has no price, 20 million or 20,000 billion same thing.We can accept bilateral aid even because in the future we can help others. "

Macron reacted when Bolsonaro accused NGOs of burning the Brazilian jungle and called it "liar", after threatening to leave the EU-Mercosur agreement.

"Macron offended the democratically elected president and then relativised the Amazonian sovereignty, which sparked the patriotic feeling of Brazil and other Amazonian countries," said Bolsonaro, who called the French president "left" and "center". -law".

In addition, the few official information on firefighting has taken a significant turn today as federal police detected that the criminals burn the indigenous reserve 219,000 hectares of aréos, where the Xavante ethnic group lives north of the state of Mato Grosso, in the center-west of Brazil.