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Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro Accepts Putin Invite to Visit Russia

by GABRIELLE REYES

Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Wednesday invited Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to visit Russia at an unspecified time in the future, Russia’s state-owned TASS news agency reported.

“We will be happy to see the president of Brazil in Russia,” Putin said on December 1 while speaking at an “ambassadors’ credentials presentation ceremony” in Moscow, according to TASS.

“Putin noted that Russia will continue to gradually strengthen the bilateral cooperation with Brazil on trade, energy, scientific and other tracks,” the news agency relayed.

“Brazil is one of Russia’s most important strategic partners,” Putin said at Wednesday’s ceremony.

“We work together within the BRICS forum and the G20. Considering that, in 2022-2023, your country [Brazil] will obtain the status of a non-permanent UN Security Council member, we will cooperate even more intensely on the pressing issues of the global agenda at the UN platform,” the Russian head of state affirmed.

During a weekly social media live stream on December 2, Bolsonaro accepted Putin’s invitation to travel to Russia…


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