Rubio and Vieira agree to meet again before G20 leaders summit in Miami
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira briefly spoke at a G20 ministers meeting in Atlanta and agreed to hold another meeting ahead of the December summit.
Atlanta, United States. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira had a short conversation on the sidelines of a Group of 20 foreign ministers meeting and agreed to hold talks in the coming weeks, according to a source familiar with the arrangements.
Meeting ahead of the leaders summit
Rubio hosted the G20 gathering in Atlanta, and Vieira attended. The two ministers agreed to meet again before the G20 leaders convene in Miami in December. Bloomberg was the first to report the plan.
Efforts to move past discord
The planned meeting reflects a wish in both capitals to put recent disagreements behind them. These include the dispute over the visa of the ambassador and Washington’s decision to grant a visa to Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro after he lost an election to the leftist incumbent, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
A Brazilian official played down tensions linked to Brazil’s failure to approve President Donald Trump’s choice as ambassador and to the re-election of Lula. The official said: “We’re clearly not politicizing the issue, as we haven’t in other situations regarding Brazilian citizens who have fled to the US.”
US position on Bolsonaro
Last week, a US official and another person familiar with the matter told Reuters that Trump currently has no plans to back Flavio Bolsonaro’s political ambitions, even though the administration permitted him to enter the country.
His father, former President Jair Bolsonaro, is in prison in Brazil for trying to remain in power after losing his own re-election bid in 2022.
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