According to the Brazilian Minister of State for Agriculture and Livestock, Carlos Fávaro, Angola also suffered from "Operation Lava Jato", which transformed the South American country into a "veritable Tower of Babel", but Angola never failed to honour its commitments.
"Angola suffered the consequences of this ["Operation Lava Jato"], but, regardless of this, it honoured all its commitments with the financing it had acquired from the Brazilian Economic and Social Development Bank", said the Brazilian leader, in Luanda.
The government currently led by Lula da Silva will now have to "face the challenge of political rhetoric there in Brazil to resume financing and investments in Angola, so that [Brazil] can promote development", he responded to Lusa.
Speaking on the sidelines of the Brazil-Angola Agro Business Forum, where he reviewed his two-day visit to Luanda, Fávaro said that his presence in Angola is the result of the "determination" of the Brazilian head of state, Lula da Silva.
Reestablishing good diplomatic, friendly and commercial relations with the entire world, and particularly with Angola, is one of the priorities of the current government, said the Minister of State, acknowledging that his country went through a period of distance from the world.
"Brazil went through a period where it distanced itself from the world, unfortunately we recognise this (...) and we are very determined to reestablish diplomatic relations", he stressed.
The Brazilian minister stated that his presence in Angola, as is the case with other diplomatic missions from his country accompanied by businesspeople, was "to seek reciprocal opportunities so that everyone can prosper".
Current trade between Brazil and Angola, which was once worth 4 billion dollars annually, "fell significantly under the previous government" led by Jair Bolsonaro, and is now set at 1.4 billion dollars, figures considered by the Brazilian minister to be "still very low", taking into account the relationship between the two countries.
The trade flow between the two countries is being resumed, he argued, considering that the current trade balance of around 1.4 billion dollars is still quite favourable to Angola.
Angola basically exports oil to Brazil and this country exports around 400 million dollars in food and agricultural products to Angola, he said.
"[The Atlantic Ocean] unites us and does not separate us, and it is through it that we will strengthen our trade relations, expand and bring technology and production here, it is not only a trade flow, but also an integration flow", assured Carlos Fávaro.
Angola's agricultural potential was also highlighted by the Brazilian leader, who said that, with the experience his country has acquired over 40 years, it will not take four decades to make Angola a food production powerhouse.
"All we need is cooperation, integration and the transfer of everything we have learned," he concluded.
The Brazilian Minister of State for Agriculture and Livestock, who ended his visit to Angola last Friday accompanied by a delegation of agribusiness entrepreneurs, was received in an audience with the President, João Lourenço, on Friday.
