Brazil intensified cooperation with Chile

Brazil intensified cooperation with Chile

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff with Chilean President Sebastián Piñera. 

Last Friday (26.01.) Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff attended the first summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the European Union participate in the Chilean capital Santiago. Chilean President Sebastián Piñera took the theme of the inter-oceanic trade routes between Chile and Brazil with the President again. The two countries are separated no boundaries, the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, which we must use it as an advantage. At the beginning Rousseff would begin to integrate the major ports. It lifted Rousseff emphasized the special relations of friendship between the two countries, which were aufrechtherhalten over the years, as many Brazilians are the dictatorship period went to Chile to exile. "This unqualified friendship is now a friendship without borders." In Santiago, other bilateral meetings were on the agenda, for example, with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and the German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Some meetings from Rousseff said, however, be able to return to Brazil and to the victims and families of the disastrous fire at a nightclub in Santa Maria, in which more than 200 people died assist to be able to. In addition, completed the two presidents treaties on cooperation in education and cultural exchanges. Also discussed were the possibility of new partnerships, for example in the energy sector in the field of renewable energy, hydro and biomass. As for cooperation in science and technology, guaranteed Piñera that Brazilian researchers in Antarctica could use the Chilean base station to the Brazilian, 2012 destroyed by fire station, is rebuilt.