On the occasion of World Portuguese language day, Paulo Estivallet de Mesquita, Brazil Ambassador to China received the interview from Belt and Road Ambassador Interview Program and sent his congratulations and wishes to the Chinese audience.
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a major initiative of China's all-round opening up to the outside world. Over the past years, it has achieved fruitful results through the joint efforts of China and countries worldwide.
China and Brazil enjoy deepening mutual political trust, high economic complementarity and solid cooperation in the field of trade and investment. China has already become Brazil's largest trading partner and major source of investment, and Brazil, as China's main economic partner in Latin America, has seen significant growth in bilateral trade in recent years.
Brazil exports a large amount of agricultural products and fossil fuels to China, such as beef, pork, soybeans, crude oil, among others. At the same time, China has become one of the main source countries of investment in Brazil, involving electricity, oil and other fields, which makes the products exported from Brazil to China more diversified, and the export of high value-added products also increasing.
Paulo Estivallet de Mesquitathe, the Ambassador of Brazil to China emphasized "We are eager to work together with China to strengthen forward-looking market development, create better and stable conditions for expanding trade, and guide investment cooperation to burst into new vitality after the epidemic. The Brazilian embassy is willing to serve as a bridge for this purpose and believes that our two sides will continue to promote economic and trade cooperation in multiple levels and fields."
"And what is more, China and Brazil have frequent exchanges in the field of culture and education despite the restrictions and difficulties brought about by the epidemic. The Brazilian government and the Brazilian embassy have made great efforts to spread Brazilian culture. We have organized rich exchange activities in the fields of music, film, and food and so forth. We have also displayed them through our official microblog, website and some other platforms available to Chinese people. In this regard, the Belt and Road Ambassador Interview Program is inclusive. Audience from various backgrounds can appreciate the Interview, and can be inspired by every decision-maker at home and abroad. Although the Initiative is grand, it is closely related to our life. China's development is closely linked to everyone's life, and the development of the world. On the occasion of World Portuguese language day, I would like to congratulate the program a big success. And I am extremely happy to know that Ambassador's views on the Belt and Road is published in the language of Portuguese in Brazil."
The year 2022 marks the 48th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and Brazil. Over the past 48 years, China-Brazil relations have undergone radical changes with the two countries establishing a comprehensive strategic partnership and making significant progress in the areas of trade and investment.
Paulo Estivallet de Mesquitathe, the Ambassador of Brazil to China, said that China and Brazil are the largest developing countries in the eastern and western hemispheres. The Brazilian government attaches great importance to its relations with China and regards China as a stable and reliable cooperative partner of mutual trust.
The Belt and Road Initiative is open to all interested countries and regions, including Latin America. Therefore, the Brazilian government highly appreciates that and is willing to promote the integration of its foreign policy with the BRI, expand cooperation in trade, science, technology, culture and other fields. As the Brazil ambassador to China, it is his responsibility and pleasure to enhance mutual understanding between our peoples, to promote the two countries stay in close coordination and to strengthen the relationship in multiple levels and fields.
He pointed out that in-depth international dialogues, including Belt and Road Ambassador Interview Program, serve as an integral medium to promote exchanges between countries and continue to utilize the partnership and to respect, trust, and support each other, especially in the new era when cultural and people-to-people exchanges have helped to increase mutual understanding. It has practical guidance for and significant value in broadening more international consensus and promoting the construction of BRI. The initiative is proposed to build "A community with shared future for all humankind". As a national cooperation platform open to countries around the world, it is natural to receive different interpretations or even dissenting voices. Therefore, the key or the precondition is to let the world accurately and comprehensively understand the concept and operation of the Initiative. Those people possess a better insight about China as well as incisive understanding of their countries' policies. It's a remarkable way to display the international thinking and actions triggered by the Initiative, and to avoid mutual misjudgment caused by lack of communication mechanism or any other potential challenges.
Besides, More in-depth international dialogues such as the Belt and Road Ambassador Interview can provide both Chinese people and the people throughout the world with a fresh and objective perspective to observe China, to listen to different developing stories together with other countries, which will make for further strengthened communication and coordination. Through those vivid dialogues and exchanges, audience from all backgrounds can comprehend the spirit and very essence of the BRI, clearly know whether the proposal is effective and feasible, what their countries and the international community pay attention to, and what tangible benefits will be brought once those cooperative projects are implemented. For Brazil, the flourishing relations with China are basically determined by the interests of the two countries and rooted in commitment to mutual respect, equality and trust. Only by gathering more understandings, can BRI be able to receive valuable solidarity and support from our people and thus drive collective ways forward and do altogether construct good future.
Again, as the largest developing country and major emerging economy in the eastern and western hemispheres, China and Brazil share a wide range of interests and have broad prospects for cooperation. China is Brazil's largest economic and trade partner in Asia, and the resources, markets, technologies and capital of the two countries are highly complementary.
Finally, he gave an outlook on the future friendship between China and Brazil, "the Brazilian side is looking forward for more mutual visits and frequent exchanges in diverse fields, so as to enhance mutual understanding between our peoples and pass on the friendship from generation to generation. As I have already conveyed, language is an important part of bringing people closer together. Even though China and Brazil are far apart geographically, more and more dialogues between civilizations will help bring them closer in heart and spirit."
"Despite being separated by mountains and oceans, the Chinese and Brazilian people are close in heart and soul. We will surely create a bright future together with the enthusiasm of friendship, mutual understanding, the spirit of solidarity and cooperation."
Paulo Estivallet de Mesquitathe, the Ambassador of Brazil to China, has served at the Embassies of Brazil in Rome and Santiago, and he was the Deputy Permanent Representative of Brazil to the WTO and other international organizations in Geneva. In Brasilia, he served as an Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Director of the Economic Department and Undersecretary General for Latin America and the Caribbean, with responsibility for both political and economic relations with Latin American and Caribbean countries. He was the Brazilian National Coordinator for the Common Market Group of MERCOSUR, the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) and the Community of the Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). He also served as a member of the board of Directors of Itaipu Binacional (2016-2018).
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