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BRASILIA (PL)- Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Bolivian President-elect Evo Morales are analyzing Friday the possibilities to boost collaboration, reported the Brazilian Foreign Ministry.
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In an official note, the Brazilian entity expressed interest in cooperating after the MAS government’s inauguration January 22.
It added that Morales’ visit facilitates tackling future cooperation in trade, investment expansion and development of social programs.
Likewise, it spotlighted Bolivia’s role in the reinforcement of the South American Community of Nations with Brazil and Peru. Bolivia will host this year this bloc’s second heads of state summit.
Morales is arriving in this capital from South Africa, after visiting Cuba, Venezuela, Spain, France, Brussels, Holland, Belgium plus China, and is flying to Argentina January 17.
All these nations offered him political-economic support, and with Cuba he signed an 11 point cooperation accord on health and education.
Venezuela offered 30,000 million dollars for social projects and 150,000 oil barrels for agricultural products.
Meanwhile, Spain cancelled part of Bolivia’s foreign debt to be used on education and China opened new prospects of development and cooperation in the political, economic and trade fields.