Brazil Formally Handed over Mercosur's Rotating Presidency
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Brazil formally handed over Mercosur's rotating presidency
Argentine President Javier Milei formally transferred the pro tempore presidency of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) to his Brazilian colleague Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at the close of the bloc's summit in Buenos Aires.
The city of Buenos Aires is the headquarters of the 66th Mercosur Summit, where the presidents of the member states meet to address key issues for the regional bloc. Argentine president Javier Milei, host of the event, received his counterparts at the Palacio San Martín, where he is expected to transfer the pro tempore presidency to Brazil at the end of the Summit. One of the points that has caught public and media attention is the visit of Braz…
Lula and Lulei were on their side today in Buenos Aires, on the coast of the countries of Mercosul. Argentina was passing to Brazil the rotating presidency of the group. The faces of Milei and Lula were even those who did not even go with the other face. And a good part of what they discussed. Lula said that Mercosul protects from commercial wars. Milei called it a "coir cut", composed of barriers that prevented the block countries from becoming…
The 66th Summit of the Southern Common Market ended in Buenos Aires with an ambivalent balance. While progress was made in trade agreements, the multilateral meeting exhibited the differences in the regional bloc. "The cold link prevents the association between [Brazil and Argentina] from being able to strengthen and continue to grow," one expert told Sputnik.
It was during the transfer of the pro tempore presidency from Argentina to Brazil. "We will begin the path of freedom, and we will do it accompanied or alone," said the libertarian president.
BUENOS AIRES, July 13.— The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, presented this Thursday five guidelines that will follow in the presidency of the Common Market of the South (Mercosur), in order to turn the block into a "trusted partner" that confronts the global commercial uncertainty, in his first speech after receiving the pro tempore deck from his Argentine pair Javier Milei.
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