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The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, has affirmed that he will accept to discuss the economic aid offered by the G-7 to fight the fires of the Amazon if the president of France, Emmanuel Macron, recants his words. "First, Mr. Macron has to withdraw the insults he made against me. He called me a liar. Then, for the information I had, our sovereignty is open in the Amazon," he said today in Brasilia.

"To talk or accept anything with France, even with the best possible intentions, he (Macron) is going to have to withdraw those words," he continued. And he has settled: "First withdraw, then offer and, from there, I respond."

However, last night, the Social Communication Secretariat of the Planalto Palace officially confirmed that Brazil was going to reject the G-7 offer of $ 20 million, announced at the Biarritz summit. Asked about it, the former soldier has said: "Did I say that? Did I speak? Did Jair Bolsonaro speak?", As quoted by 'Globo'.

Their interlocutors, however, made it clear yesterday that if the G7 offer was conditioned with monitoring requirements or implied NGO participation would be rejected. This was explained by Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo on Twitter, where he wrote that "Brazil will not accept any initiative that involves relativizing sovereignty over its territory, whatever the pretext may be."

President Macron's reflections on a hypothetical "status or international status" of the Amazon during the G7 have only reinforced the 'Bolsonarist' thesis of the hidden interests of the international community in the largest rainforest on the planet, whose 60 % belongs to Brazil.

When asked about it, the French president said that it could be raised in the event that a "sovereign state" takes "clear and concrete measures that are against the interests of the entire planet", although he clarified that this is not about table.

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