Published 13:51 IST, October 25th 2019
Indians won't require visas to visit Brazil: President Jair Bolsonaro
Brazilian far-right President Jair Bolsonaro said on October 24 that Indian and Chinese tourists are no more required to obtain visas for visiting Brazil.
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on October 24 that Indian and Chinese tourists are no more required to obtain visas for visiting Brazil. Bolsonaro came to power at the beginning of this year and has made a strict policy to reduce visa requirements from a number of developed countries. The announcement was made during an official visit to China and he is the first leader to expand the policy to the developing world.
Other countries that don't need visa for Brazil
At the beginning of this year, the Brazilian government ended visa requirements for tourists and business people from the US, Canada, Japan, and Australia. But those countries in return have not dropped their visa requirements for Brazilian citizens.
Recently, Brazil and India have co-operated in the multilateral level on issues such as international trade and development, environment, reform of the UN and the UNSC expansion. The two-way trade in 2007 nearly tripled to US$3.12 billion from US$1.2 billion in 2004. In 2016, trade between the two nations had increased to US$5.64 billion. Software giant Wipro has also set up a business process outsourcing center in Curitiba to provide shared services to AmBev, the largest brewery in Latin America.
India-Brazil relations
In July 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Brazil for his first multilateral visit to the 6th BRICS summit that was held at the north-eastern beach city of Fortaleza. During the summit, the group has agreed to establish a financial institution to compete with the western dominated The bank would be named the New Development Bank which was suggested by the Indian government. Brazil and India are also involved in the IBSA initiative whose first summit was held in September 2006. It covers many areas such as science, technology, education, agriculture, energy, culture, health, social issues, public administration and revenue administration and the target of US$10 billion in trade was already achieved by 2007.
13:28 IST, October 25th 2019