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At a meeting at Plbadto Palace, President Jair Bolsonaro and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussed Wednesday cooperation measures to resolve the crisis in Venezuela.
The neighboring country faces a scenario of political and economic instability with the dictator Nicolás Maduro's administration. As a result, the number of Venezuelan immigrants in Latin America and the United States has increased.
In Brazil, the border with Roraima is increasingly frequented by foreigners, who have submerged public services such as education, health and safety in the state.
Bolsonaro occupies a critical position in the management of Maduro and has already declared that intends to maintain relations with the neighboring country. Asked about the migratory situation, he has already made contradictory statements and has not yet specified the policy that his government will adopt with regard to Venezuelans arriving in the country.
According to the presidential communications secretariat, Pompeo stated that the US government "is concerned about the serious crisis in Venezuela and has asked the Brazilian president to cooperate actively in resolving this issue" [19659002] In response Bolsonaro said he was concerned about the situation in Venezuela and said that Brazil was attached to the regional stability of South America and the situation of Venezuela considered serious.
At the meeting, they talked about bilateral cooperation between Brazil and the United States, and Pompeo invited Bolsonaro to visit President Donald Trump.
Plbadto also reported that the US Secretary had expressed interest in Trump's visit to Brazil.
Regarding bilateral cooperation, the US government stated that it was in its interest to contact Brazil in areas such as trade, education, security and defense. Bolsonaro also reiterated that he intended to revoke Brazil 's accession to the Global Compact on Migration, as Araújo had announced.
Bolsonaro devoted the morning of the first day of his work to the preparation of the international agenda. In addition to Pompeo, he received representatives from three other countries: Portugal, Hungary and China.
The agenda of the palace of Plbadto began with the transfer of the offices of the ministers of the palace: Gustavo Bebianno (General Secretariat), Onyx Lorenzoni), Santos Cruz (Secretary of the Government) and Augusto Heleno (Office of institutional security).
Bolsonaro then received Pompeo alongside Chancellor Ernesto Araújo. Ministers Fernando Azevedo (Defense) and Heleno met at the meeting.
Among Americans, there was Mark Green, Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), William Popp, charge of business at the US Embbady. United in Brasilia, Julia Chung, Assistant Under-Secretary-General for Western Hemisphere Affairs, and Mauricio Claver-Carone, Special Advisor to the Director of the National Security Council.
After meeting with Araújo before going to Plbadto, Pompeo stated that the United States had "intent" [com o Brasil] on security issues and against authoritarian regimes in the world "
The US Secretary went to Brazil for the inauguration of Bolsonaro. He has already returned to his country after Wednesday's meetings.
From the election period, the president praised Trump and defended an approximation between the two countries. In November, the White House security advisor, John Bolton, was in Brazil and met with Bolsonaro in Rio de Janeiro.
The same month, MP Eduardo Bolsonaro (PSL-SP), one of the president's sons, also traveled to Washington and New York City, where he met businessmen and women. local politicians.
Bolsonaro also received Wednesday the President of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who stressed the importance of an agreement between Mercosur and the European Union.
"Portugal's position is that pragmatism, independent of each country's foreign policy positions, requires that, in addition to bilateral relations, multilateral instruments of agreement, even without ideological content, even without debate doctrinal, "
Bolsonaro received a number of articles on the subject which, he said, also dealt with migration issues involving both countries. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Vice President of the Chinese Parliament Ji Bingxuan.
At the bilateral meeting, he stated that his intention was to broaden the relationship with the country, regardless of the change of context.
The president winked at the Asian country, Brazil's biggest trading partner, after being criticized during the election campaign. and the global economic scenario.
On a social network, he thanked the President of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, who appeared at the inauguration, and the support of Argentina.
According to presidential advisers, Ji Bingxuan stressed the importance for the two countries to play jointly in the pacification. Mauricio Macri
"Thank you for your words, Mr. President." Brazil and Argentina will go together in different directions than those of previous governments, a big hug, "he wrote in Spanish.
Tuesday 1st, at a bilateral meeting at the palace from Itamaraty, Piñera defended the creation of a free trade area between Mercosur and the Pacific Alliance
He also invited the Brazilian president to visit Chile, accepted proposal by Bolsonaro, who set a date for this year.
At the meeting, the Brazilian preached the elimination of what he called the ideological bias of the regional blocks. South America.
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