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Source: Government of the Russian Federation – Government of the Russian Federation –
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The Russian-Brazilian High-Level Commission on Cooperation (HLC), chaired by the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation and the Vice President of the Federative Republic of Brazil, was established in accordance with an agreement between the Presidents of Russia and Brazil during their meeting at the 50th session of the UN General Assembly in New York in 1995, with the aim of comprehensively enhancing bilateral relations. A joint statement establishing the HLC was signed on November 21, 1997, during an official visit to Brazil by Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov.
The CVU consists of the Intergovernmental Russian-Brazilian Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation (IPC) (which includes working groups on trade, economic and industrial cooperation, scientific and technical cooperation and cooperation in the field of education, interbank and financial cooperation, cooperation in the field of energy and the peaceful use of nuclear energy, cooperation in the field of peaceful use of outer space, military-technical cooperation, customs cooperation, cooperation in the field of culture and sports, and an agricultural committee) and a commission on political issues.
The Chairman of the Russian part of the IGC is M.G. Reshetnikov, Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. The Chairman of the Brazilian part of the IGC is M.D. da Rocha, Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil. The 12th meeting of the IGC was held in Moscow in February 2024.
The Political Affairs Commission, which is an integral part of the CVU, is chaired, in accordance with established practice, by the Deputy Foreign Ministers of Russia and Brazil, who oversee bilateral relations (S.A. Ryabkov on the Russian side and S.Klibank on the Brazilian side). The last meeting of the Political Affairs Commission co-chairs took place in Brasilia on February 27, 2025.
From the transcript:
M. Mishustin: Esteemed Mr. Vice President, distinguished colleagues! Dear friends!
I am pleased to welcome you, Mr. Geraldo Alckmin, and all the participants of the meeting. First of all, I would like to thank our Brazilian friends for the warm welcome extended to the Russian delegation.
Our visit to Brazil is being carried out at the direction of Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. He emphasized that Russia and Brazil, which stood at the origins of BRICS, are consistent supporters of the formation of a truly equitable multipolar world order. Cooperation between Russia and Brazil is steadily developing and is being filled with new mutually beneficial projects in various fields.
We actively cooperate in the trade and economic sphere.
Brazil is our leading foreign trade partner in Latin America, accounting for approximately half of the region's total trade turnover. It also maintains a leading position in the domestic food market, primarily in meat and coffee.
Visit
Mikhail Mishustin arrived in the Federative Republic of Brazil.
Russia provides about a quarter of Brazil's needs for imported mineral fertilizers.
This mutually beneficial cooperation allows us to make a significant joint contribution to food security.
The structural changes taking place in the global economy, the rapid spread of modern technologies, and the processes of global digitalization and energy transition undoubtedly open up additional opportunities for expanding Russian-Brazilian cooperation.
The heads of our states have proposed creating a technological alliance to accelerate the launch of joint long-term projects in science-intensive fields.
To be continued…
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