Venezuela and Brazil have agreed to fully resume their bilateral relations and advance an agenda for economic and energy cooperation. This agreement was reached during a meeting held this Wednesday between the President of the Republic, Delcy Rodríguez, and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Antalya, Türkiye, within the context of COP31.
In a statement, the Brazilian Government reported that both leaders expressed their willingness to restore ties «at the highest level,» as reviewed Sputnik.
During the meeting, Lula proposed continuing negotiations regarding the revision of the Economic Complementarity Agreement No. 69, as well as the tariffs applied to Brazilian-made automobiles.
For her part, President Rodríguez proposed that Brazil send a negotiating delegation to Caracas to address these matters.
The dignitaries also assessed the potential for expanding Brazilian investments in the oil sector and agreed on the visit to Venezuela before the end of the year of Brazil’s Minister of Mines and Energy, Alexandre Silveira.
At the conclusion of the meeting, both sides agreed to maintain contact in order to deepen discussions and identify new areas of cooperation between the two nations.