{"id":319194,"date":"2020-01-22T04:18:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T04:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=319194"},"modified":"2020-01-22T04:19:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T04:19:56","slug":"brazilian-president-bolsonaro-to-begin-four-day-visit-to-india-from-january-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/brazilian-president-bolsonaro-to-begin-four-day-visit-to-india-from-january-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian President Bolsonaro to begin four-day visit to India from January 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-319196 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/brazil-president.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/brazil-president.jpg 492w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/brazil-president-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/>Brazilian President\u00a0Jair Messias Bolsonaro\u00a0will on January 24 begin a four-day visit to India, primarily as chief guest on\u00a0Republic Day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He will be accompanied by seven Ministers, senior officials and a large business delegation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cPresident of Brazil Jair Messias Bolsonaro will be paying a State Visit to India from 24-27 January 2020 at the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. President Bolsonaro will be the Chief Guest at India\u2019s 71st Republic Day Parade on 26 January 2020,\u201d Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This is the first State Visit of President Bolsonaro to India. The last presidential visit from Brazil was by President Michel Temer in October 2016 on the sidelines of the eighth BRICS summit in Goa. PM Modi visited Brazil in November to attend the XI BRICS Summit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On January 25, President\u00a0Kovind\u00a0will hold talks with Bolsonaro and will also host a banquet for him. Vice President M\u00a0Venkaiah Naidu\u00a0and External Affairs Minister\u00a0S Jaishankar\u00a0will also call on President Bolsonaro, the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President Bolsonaro will address Indian and Brazilian Business leaders at the India-Brazil Business Forum on January 27, it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Bilateral trade between India and Brazil increased to USD 8.2 billion in 2018-19. This included USD 3.8 billion as Indian exports to Brazil and USD 4.4 million as imports by India. Major Indian exports to Brazil include agro-chemicals, synthetic yarns, auto components and parts, pharmaceuticals and petroleum products. Brazilian exports to India include crude oil, gold, vegetable oil, sugar and bulk mineral and ores, the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Indian investments in Brazil were around US$ 6 billion and Brazilian investments in India are estimated at US$ 1 billion in 2018. Brazilian investments in India are mainly in automobiles, IT, mining, energy and biofuels sectors. India has invested in Brazil&#8217;s IT, pharmaceutical, energy, agri-business, mining and engineering sectors, it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This visit is expected to further enhance and strengthen the multi-faceted ties between India-Brazil.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian President\u00a0Jair Messias Bolsonaro\u00a0will on January 24 begin a four-day visit to India, primarily as chief guest on\u00a0Republic Day. He will be accompanied by seven Ministers, senior officials and a large business delegation. \u201cPresident of Brazil Jair Messias Bolsonaro will be paying a State Visit to India from 24-27 January 2020 at the invitation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":319196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,1],"tags":[12463],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319198,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319194\/revisions\/319198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/319196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}