BRAZIL, January 1 Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matvienko said that Russia confirmed its readiness to supply Brazil with the necessary volume of fertilizers.
The Speaker of the Federation Council represents Russia in Brazil at the inauguration ceremony of President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
«Russia has been and remains one of the main suppliers of mineral fertilizers to Brazil, which play a very important role here in the agro-industrial sector, and we have confirmed our readiness to continue to supply the required volume of fertilizers,» she said.
On the eve of his inauguration, President-elect of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva held meetings with heads of delegations of Russia and Ukraine.
Speaker of the Federation Council Matvienko also held a number of meetings in Brazil on Saturday, including with Vice President of the Republic of Cuba Salvador Valdez Mesa and Chairman of the Assembly of the Republic of Mozambique Experanse Bias. From the Russian side, Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev and Chief of Staff of the Federation Council Gennady Golov also took part in bilateral meetings from the Russian side, the press service of the Federation Council reports.
On December 31, Matvienko arrived in the city of Brasilia on a working visit.
In Brazil, on October 30, the second round of presidential elections took place, in which Lula da Silva defeated the incumbent Jair Bolsonaro by a small margin. In November, Brazil's highest electoral court rejected Bolsonaro's party's application to annul some of the votes in the presidential election.