France wants new agreements with Brazil
DCI
After nine months from his last official visit to Brazil, the President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, returns to the Country on Sunday and promises to execute pending agreements as well as to announce new ones in sectors like energy, infrastructure and agribusiness, together with the President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
The President of the bank BNP Paribas and of the France-Brazil Chamber of Commerce (CCFB-SP), Louis Bazire affirmed the European country invests more and more in the intensification of the commercial relations with Brazil. "The French investments in Brazil are 40% bigger than China's, we are interested in agreements of technological cooperation in several sectors. There is a lot of work to develop the commercial relations between both the countries, which are not only related to the export and import, purchase and sale", he affirmed. Besides, the Government will also use the money for the construction of a shipyard and a base for submarines in the Sepetiba Bay in Rio de Janeiro.
Bazire also affirmed the other agreements should take place in the sectors of infrastructure, agribusiness, logistics and energy. "Other agreements should intensify the commercial relations even more. The most promising sectors are infrastructure, everything related to the high speed train, drilling and exploration of the pre-salt layer and food".