chinese President Xi Jinping to talk over with Brazil in November for BRICS summit

FILE picture: Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro (L) shakes arms with China's President Xi Jinping throughout the BRICS summit in Osaka, Japan June 28, 2019. Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin by the use of REUTERS

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's vp Hamilton Mourao said on Monday that chinese President Xi Jinping will discuss with Brazil in November, because the two international locations are trying to find to toughen political and financial ties at a time of international change tensions.

The consult with is expected to take area all over a summit of BRICS countries, a grouping of international locations together with Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, Mourao mentioned all the way through a convention in Sao Paulo hosted through the Brazil-China business Council.

The BRICS summit this yr, scheduled for Nov. 13-14 in Brasilia, will be hosted in Brazil for the third time. It came to Brasilia in 2010, and the northeastern metropolis of Fortaleza additionally hosted the summit in 2014.

"China acknowledges in Brazil a key regional associate," Mourao stated, noting that change between the two international locations reached $a hundred billion (80.9 billion pounds) in 2018. alternate may still continue to be round these stages this year as China increased imports of meat from Brazil following a pandemic of African swine fever, he talked about.

also on Monday, Brazil's Agriculture Ministry mentioned Beijing had licensed 25 Brazilian plant life to export meat to China, bringing the whole as much as 89. [L2N2600HI]

China has been Brazil's right alternate partner for a decade, Mourao said, including that Brazil's government will hold the channels of commerce open with a number of tasks in mining, oil and logistics for private investment.

"The chinese language have hobby, capital and experience to extend and diversify investments in Brazil," Mourao mentioned.

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, who's recuperating from a surgical procedure in Sao Paulo, was more likely to seek advice from China in October, Mourao mentioned.

(This story corrects third paragraph to claim BRICS summit might be hosted in Brazil for the third time no longer the 2nd time)

Reporting by Ana Mano; editing with the aid of Kevin Liffey and David Gregorio