The governments of Germany and Brazil plan to resume joint consultations for the first time in eight years, Germany’s embassy in Brazil announced.

Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office Tobias Lindner arrived in Brazil with a delegation that includes representatives of the Ministry for Environment, the Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action in order to prepare for this meeting.

The first session of government consultations between the two countries was held in 2015.

Relations between Germany and Brazil deteriorated during the four-year rule of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro who lost the elections in October 2022.

The German Government regularly organizes such joint consultations with particularly close partners such as France, Spain and the Netherlands, or with countries of particular importance to Germany such as China, India and Brazil.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz had announced consultations with the Brazilian
government during his tour of South America early this year.

Brazil is Germany’s most important trading partner in South America, and the only South American country that has a strategic partnership with Germany since 2008. The partnership is focused on expanding the scope of cooperation between the two countries in areas such as energy, environment, climate, science, economics, trade, defense and labor.

Source: Qatar News Agency