“We greet the President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, upon arriving at the G20 Leaders Summit. In the meetings we will address topics such as the fight against poverty, hunger and climate change,” the dignitary said in a message through her account on the X network.
The president left the day before on a commercial flight to the South American giant and before arriving she stopped in Panama, where she was received by Foreign Minister Javier Martínez-Acha.
In the talks, the parties expressed their interest in consolidating cooperation in key areas for both countries such as trade, migration, security and investment, according to an official note.
Sheinbaum will participate only on the first day of the Summit and will do so in two plenary sessions: the opening session, which will address the fight against hunger and poverty, and another in the afternoon, focused on the reform of governance institutions. global.
He is also expected to hold bilateral meetings with several heads of state, including Lula himself, as well as the presidents of France, Emmanuel Macron, and of South Korea, Yoon Suk-Yeol.
He will also speak with the Prime Ministers of Canada, Justin Trudeau, of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, of India, Narendra Modi, of Japan, Shigeru Ishiba, and of Vietnam, Pham Minh Chinh.
He will be back on the 19th to be able to meet in this capital on the 20th and join the celebrations for the anniversary of the Mexican Revolution.
The president announced in recent days that she will propose at the meeting of the 19 largest economies in the world, plus the European Union and the African Union, to reduce spending on arms and direct those resources to care for those most in need.
“What I am going to present at the G20 is mainly the Sowing Life program, the proposal is to reduce spending on arms a little, just a little, and that instead of sowing wars, life and peace be sown,” he stated.
In this way, he explained, people’s quality of life improves, poverty decreases, the environment is supported, and even migration decreases.
Sowing Life, implemented in the North American nation, seeks to contribute to social well-being by promoting food self-sufficiency, and addressing two problems: rural poverty and environmental degradation.
The Group of 20 represents 85 percent of the world’s Gross Domestic Product, 80 percent of investment, 75 percent of trade and 66 percent of the world’s population.
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