Brazil’s President Rousseff Starts First Official Visit to the U.S.

Brazil’s President Rousseff Starts First Official Visit to the U.S.
By Lise Alves on June 29, 2015

Rousseff and Obama are expected to talk about climate change and bilateral trade agreements.

By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter

SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – This past weekend Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff started her first official state visit to the United States and will visit New York, Washington and San Francisco. Rousseff and the Brazilian delegation accompanying her will explain to U.S. businessmen and officials the fiscal adjustments currently underway in world’s seventh largest economy, and try to attract new foreign investments to Brazil.

“It will be a chance for the President to present to different sectors, (Brazil’s) fiscal adjustment plan and the importance of the return U.S. investments, especially during this moment when we are implementing a new and important investment program in our infrastructure sector,” said Carlos Paranhos, sub-secretary general at the Brazilian Foreign Relation Ministry.

Rousseff spent the weekend in New York talking to U.S. and Brazilian business leaders about investment opportunities in Brazil. On Monday night the Brazilian President will meet with U.S. President Barack Obama for dinner at the White House and on Tuesday the South American leader is expected to have work-related meetings with Obama.

Among the issues to be discussed by the two leaders are the issue of climate change and the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Paris at the end of the year, beef trade between the two countries and the possible entry of Brazilians into the U.S. Global Entry program. During her visit to San Francisco, Rousseff is expected to visit Stanford University and NASA.

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