Brazilian president participates as a guest at the G7 Summit in the Japanese city of Hiroshima.| Photo: Ricardo Stuckert/Secom

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) had the first official commitment of his trip to Japan this Friday (19) with a meeting with the Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese, in the city of Hiroshima. The President is in Asia to attend the G7 Summit as a guest.

At the meeting with the Australian premier, Lula discussed topics such as the similarity of the trade agenda of both nations, such as the production of meat and iron ore, labor relations of service intermediation platforms, among other subjects. Brazil and Australia had a business flow of US$ 3.4 billion in 2022.

This was the only commitment of the president’s first day of travel, who spends the night at the hotel to adapt to the Japanese time zone – 12 hours more than Brazil. Lula will have an intense schedule of meetings this Saturday (20), with at least six bilateral meetings with heads of state, such as the Prime Minister of Japan, Fumio Kishida; French President Emanuel Macron; and German Prime Minister Olaf Scholz.

Still on Saturday (20th), Lula should have a meeting with Narendra Modi, prime minister of India, to discuss a possible intermediation with Brazil in the negotiations for a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. There is also the expectation that the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, will participate in the G7 Summit on Sunday (21), when the war in Eastern Europe will be the subject of one of the event’s panels.