BRASILIA: Entrance of Venezuela in Mercosur receives ambassador’s support
Brasil’s embassador in Caracas, Antonio José Ferreira Simões, was mobilizing in favor to the addition of Venezuela to Mercosur. According to the Senate agency, he visited several senators last week to show the importance (especially economical importance to Brasil) of the entrance of a new partner in the economic block, in which Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay are already part of.
Simões stayed in contact with the following parliamentarians: the senate’s president, José Sarney; CRE’S (Commision of Foreign Affairs and National Defense) president, senator Eduardo Azeredo (PSDB-MG); and the rest of the senators that are part of the commission.
The diplomat informed all the parliamentarians about the numbers of bilateral commerce: i) in the last 10 years, the exchanges between the two countries increased 850%, reaching a total annual of US$ 6 billion; ii) From that total, around US$ 5.3 billions are from Brazilian exports and only US$ .7 billions are from imports, forming the highest surplus of the Brazilian trade balance.
“Mercosur needs a new impulse and this impulse could be the entrance of Venezuela”, emphasized the embassador. In his opinion, Venezuela already became the first world-wide market of Brazil for powder milk and the second market for Brazilian meat.
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