Brazil–Iraq relations
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Brazil–Iraq relations are the foreign relations between Brazil and Iraq. Brazil maintains an embassy in Baghdad and Iraq maintains an embassy in Brasília. Both countries are full members of the Group of 77.
Brazil was the first
History
Brazil first established diplomatic relations with Iraq in 1967,
Brazil and Iraq had been major trading partners since the late 1970s. Brazil needed oil to run its industrial machine. Iraq needed food, technical support, appliances, automobiles and, perhaps most important, the "defensive" weapons made by Brazil. Brazil's relations with Iraq were downgraded during the Gulf War, when Brazil supported the
In the 1980s, Brazil was an important supplier of industrialized products to Iraq, and it imported significant volumes of oil from Iraq. At that time, trade between the two countries reached up to 4
The Brazilian newspaper Jornal da Tarde reported that about 40 Brazilian scientists were in the
The Iraq–Kuwait conflict
The
During Operation Desert Storm, a Brazilian construction company, Mendes Júnior, had several hundred workers and technicians, as well as several million dollars worth of equipment, in southern Iraq working on railroad and irrigation projects.[3] Thus, Brazil, unlike Argentina, did not participate in the Allied operation. The Brazilian government had to dispatch its key negotiator, Ambassador Paulo de Tarso Flecha de Lima, from his post in London to negotiate the release of the Mendes Júnior personnel from Iraq and the disposition of the equipment.[3] Brazil was awarded a US$5 billion price and performance in supplying its Osório tank to Saudi Arabia in 1990, but the Kuwait conflict changed the decision in favor of the United States Abrams tank.
2003 Iraq War
In 2003, Brazil president
Brazilian Ambassador to Iraq
See also
Notes
- Eugene Robinson "Sanctions Cost Brazil Key Trade Partner;Iraq Exchanged Oil for Arms in Mutually Beneficial Arrangement", The Washington Post, August 28, 1990
References
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- ^ a b c d e f g "Brazil - The Middle East". country-data.com. Retrieved 2009-02-12.
- ^ Brazil Uranium Sales To Iraq Stir Debate Archived March 23, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Latin Americans Rally Against Iraq War". VOA News. 23 March 2003. Archived from the original on 11 July 2023. Retrieved 11 July 2023.
- ^ "Lula blasts US over De Mello tragedy". Al Jazeera. 23 August 2003. Archived from the original on 11 July 2023. Retrieved 11 July 2023.