Brazil and Argentina welcome the signing of several cooperation agreements

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (left) and his Argentinian counterpart, Alberto Fernández (right), welcomed the signing of several cooperation agreements.

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In Argentina, the end of the state visit by Brazilian President Lula da Silva marked a relaunch of the relationship between the two main South American economies, after the parenthesis of the Bolsonaro years, who deliberately ignored his neighbour.

At the Argentine presidential palace, Lula and his counterpart, Alberto Fernández, welcomed this revival, as evidenced by the signing of several cooperation agreements.

This Tuesday, January 24, Fernández receives his peers from the continent at a regional summit of which Lula will be one of the stars.

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With our correspondent in Buenos Aires,

It is an apparently physically diminished Lula, perhaps tired, worried about the situation in his country or simply overwhelmed by the heat reigning in Buenos Aires, who spoke to the press, this Monday, January 23, at the

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With sincerity and emotion, the Brazilian president thanked his Argentinian counterpart Alberto Fernández for his support in difficult times, especially when he was in prison.

Half a dozen chords

Previously, Fernández also had heartfelt words for Lula.

Each presented the other as a friend, and both celebrated having obtained on this occasion a relaunch of the traditional and strategic bilateral relationship between the two main South American economies, highlighting the half-dozen agreements signed a few minutes earlier.

Art exhibition

Thus ended the official part of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's state visit to Argentina, which continued in the afternoon with a meeting with businessmen and the inauguration of a art exhibition.

The meeting with Vice-President Cristina Kirchner could not take place, officially for scheduling reasons.

In the background, the opening, this Tuesday, January 24, of the summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Célac).

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