THE Myanmar Delegation led by U Lwin Oo, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, attended the 4th Political Consultations meeting between Myanmar and Brazil at the Deputy Foreign Minister-level held on 28 January 2025 at Ruy Barbosa Room, Palacio Itamaraty of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federative Republic of Brazil.
At the meeting, they exchanged views on Myanmar’s preparation for the general election, peace process, and repatriation process for displaced persons, trade and investment, development for international cooperation, combatting transnational crimes and consular affairs. Under the context of regional and multilateral affairs, they discussed Myanmar’s implementation of the ASEAN Five-Point consensus, Brazil’s preparation for hosting the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) to be held in Belem in 2025, and BRICS. Subsequently, they frankly exchanged views on other matters of common interest of both countries.
After the meeting, the Myanmar delegation and the Brazil delegation took the commemorative group photo together. Then, they exchanged gifts. Afterwards, the Myanmar delegation led by the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs attended the lunch hosted by the Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil Mrs Maria Laura da Rocha.
Later that afternoon, the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs visited the Myanmar Embassy in Brazil. Following a tour of the embassy, he met the embassy staff and gave necessary guidance to them.
On the evening of 30 January 2025, the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs met separately with Mr Paco Britto, Secretary of the International Relations of Federal District Government and Ambassador Maria Luiza Ribeiro Lopes da Silva, Acting Director of the Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC).
During the meetings, they discussed the issues related to the reciprocal exchange of diplomatic land plots for the Embassy premises between Myanmar and Brazil, the potential for greater cooperation between the Myanmar Government and the Brazilian Federal Government, improving the quality of snake anti-venom in Myanmar according to the technical agreement under the South-South Cooperation for developing countries, and other potential areas of cooperation. — MNA
