Brazil is again invited to the G7 Summit

Brazil is once again invited to major meetings of world leaders. The anticipation of the official invitation to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Workers’ Party) to participate in the meeting of the G7, the group of seven most industrialized economies on the planet, is great in the chancellery of the Brazilian government and everything indicates that Lula will be able to attend the winds that will take place in May in Japan.

The Japanese authorities had already indicated that Brazil is among the countries invited to the summit from May 19 to 21 in Hiroshima. The only thing missing is the formalization of the invitation, which should be made by a phone call from the Prime Minister of Japan, Fumio Kishida, to the Planalto Palace. It is likely that Lula would accept the invitation and attend the event, as he has recovered well from pneumonia, according to government sources.

The G7 is a group of the most powerful economies on the planet, consisting of the United States, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Canada. The European Commission also usually participates in the meetings of the group that Brazil did not invite during the government of Jair Bolsonaro (PL).

The last time Brazil was invited and participated in a G7 summit was in 2009, during Lula’s second term. The country was invited to and participated in other summits of this group in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008, according to the Brazilian Chancellery.

Despite the setback of Lula’s pneumonia, which caused the postponement of his visit to China, the chances of the president going to Japan are high. The agenda of the new government’s diplomatic commitments has been quite extensive since it came to power. Chancellery sources counted 65 bilateral meetings of the Minister of International Relations, Mauro Vieira, of which 16 were with heads of state and government accompanying President Lula.

The Brazilian president will travel to Shanghai on the 11th, and to Beijing on the 13th. The state visit will take place in the Chinese capital on the 14th, and the next day, Lula will return to Brazil, with a stopover in the United States. Arab Emirates. At the moment, expectations of the signing of at least 20 agreements between China and Brazil are being maintained.