Lula and Petro discuss a “great pact” in favor of the Amazon

The president of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvareceived this Monday his Colombian counterpart, Gustavo Petro, with whom he discussed, among other issues, possible joint measures to improve the protection of the Amazon region.

The defense of the environment has been one of the flags of the campaign that brought to power the new Brazilian president, who has promised to reestablish measures to combat deforestation in the Amazon abandoned by the Government of Jair Bolsonaro.

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“A great pact to save the Amazon jungle in favor of humanity”wrote Petro on his Twitter account, after his meeting with Lula, at whose inauguration he was present this Sunday.

Lula He has also announced that he plans to convene a summit with the presidents of the eleven countries that share the largest plant lung on the planet, which would be held during the first half of this year in a city in the Brazilian Amazon.

In your message, Petro added that during his meeting with Lula It has also discussed a “study of the electrical interconnection of the Americas with clean energy sources.”

He also valued the new position of the Government of Lula towards the region and the fact that there is now “a Brazil guarantor of peace in Colombia”.

Lula received the Colombian president in the company of the new Brazilian Foreign Minister, Mauro Vieira, and former Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, who will be a kind of adviser to the president on foreign affairs.

Petro He was one of the twenty heads of State and Government who attended the inauguration of Lula this Sunday, who has announced that he will invigorate Brazil’s foreign policy, which he considered abandoned during the administration of the far-right Bolsonaro, especially in relation to Latin America.

Lula He has anticipated that what he qualifies as Brazil’s “return to the world” will go through revitalizing Latin American integration, with Mercosur as a starting point and the Union of South American Nations (Unasur) and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) as complements regional.

The new Brazilian president has dedicated this first day in power to diplomacy and has had two bilateral meetings with many of the leaders who traveled to Brasilia.

In addition to Petro, has received, among others, the King of Spain, Felipe VI, and the Presidents of Argentina, Alberto Fernández; Bolivia, Luis Arce; and Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso.

Source: Elcomercio

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