Bilateral meetings will take place at the Copacabana Fort, in front of the hotel where the president is staying
The president recently left the hotel in , where he is staying to participate in the G20, in , for his first bilateral meeting with the secretary general of the United Nations (UN), . The bilateral meetings will take place at the Copacabana Fort, in front of the hotel where Lula is staying. Lula was accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mauro Vieira; the special secretary of the Presidency of the Republic, Celso Amorim; the Minister of the Environment, Marina Silva, among others.
Finance Minister Fernando Haddad, who is staying at the same hotel as Lula, will not participate in the meeting and remains at the hotel, according to sources. Earlier, a march with various social movements protested against imperialism and the decisions that are being taken without popular participation.
For the first time, however, the G20, which brings together the twenty main global economies, was preceded by the G20 Social, which today delivers to the president a document with society’s demands in the fight against hunger and poverty. “The G20 destroys the planet and our lives”, was one of the movement’s slogans, referring to the great world powers.
Published by Luisa Cardoso
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