Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro attend the BRICS Summit in November 2019 in Brasilia. Photo: Pavel Golovkin/pool/AFP via Getty Images.
The Brazilian government has confirmed that it plans to buy as much diesel as possible from Russia at a time when it faces refining problems.
“Russia is a strategic partner of Brazil,” said the Brazilian Foreign Minister, Carlos Alberto Franco Franca, on Tuesday, July 12. “We depend to a large extent on the imports of fertilizers from Russia.” Franco Franca also noted that the Eurasian country is considered a major supplier of oil and gas globally.
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During a visit to the United Nations Organization (UN), the Brazilian foreign minister confirmed that Brasilia is looking for “safe and reliable” suppliers of diesel because the South American country has refining problems. “Of course, Russia is a big supplier of oil and gas. You can ask Germany about that, you can ask Europe about that,” he said.
Similarly, it has stressed that the Brazilian government seeks to buy “as much as we can” of Russian diesel.
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In turn, the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, also stated on Monday that he has “almost closed” an agreement to buy cheaper diesel from Russia, while high fuel prices and inflation have been the main economic challenges for Bolsonaro in his search for re-election in the upcoming presidential elections scheduled for next October.
On the other hand, Russia attributes the food and energy shortages suffered by the world to the consequences of the sanctions and the unilateral measures of the West against it, which aim to illegally punish the Eurasian country for launching the Russian operation in Ukraine after exhausting all possible peaceful solutions with the US and NATO.
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