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Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to attend the 17th BRICS Summit. He landed at Galeão International Airport, starting a two-part trip to Brazil. The visit came at the invitation of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.-Photo-ANI
Rio de Janeiro: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reached Brazil for the BRICS summit. PM Modi was given a grand welcome upon his arrival in Brazil. PM Modi is on a visit to Brazil at the invitation of President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva. The Prime Minister will attend the 17th BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, after which he will go on a state visit. This is Prime Minister Modi’s fourth visit to Brazil. PM Modi can also hold several bilateral meetings during the summit. The Prime Minister will go to Brasilia for a state visit to Brazil, where he will hold bilateral discussions with President Lula on expanding the strategic partnership between the two countries in areas of mutual interests including trade, defense, energy, space, technology, agriculture, health and people-to-people relations.
There is tremendous enthusiasm among the NRIs regarding PM Modi’s visit to Brazil. Jyoti Kiran, Director of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, said that there is tremendous enthusiasm about the arrival of the Prime Minister. At the same time, Karthik, a member of the Indian diaspora community, said about Prime Minister Modi’s fourth visit to Brazil that I am from Hyderabad and have been living in Brazil for the last 16 years. We are very excited to welcome Prime Minister Modi. Pooja, a member of the NRI community living in Rio de Janeiro, said that I am from Gujarat and have been living in Brazil for the last three years. I am very excited to meet him i.e. PM Modi.
On Prime Minister Modi’s Brazil visit, Shakti Group Chairman and MD Shreyans Goyal said that we hope to increase bilateral trade and information sharing between BRICS countries from the BRICS summit. He said that Brazil is a major player in ethanol. In the year 2005, we imported ethanol from Brazil to India for the first time. But today we are standing at such a point where in the next few years we will export ethanol from India.
