The German government announced on Monday that it will invite four developing countries to the G7 Summit, which will take place in June. But as in 2021 and 2019, Brazil was underestimated. If Jair Bolsonaro is not re-elected, he will have spent four years of his rule without a single invitation to the event of the world’s main economies.
Heading the G7 for this year, Berlin chose to invite the governments of Senegal, South Africa, India and Indonesia to the event. The guest list was announced by government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit.
There was pressure against the idea of inviting the New Delhi government, as the Indians chose not to condemn Russia for its war against Ukraine and even increased their Russian oil imports. However, the invitation was eventually approved.
Known as the advanced economies group, the G7 consists of the USA, Italy, France, Japan, Canada, the UK and Germany. But it has already become a tradition for leaders of these countries to expand the meeting to hear the perspectives of developing countries.
Brazil, one of the countries that attended the event the most for years, was also forgotten. At the summit hosted by the British government in 2021, the G7 forwarded the invitation to India, South Korea and Australia.
In 2019, French President Emmanuel Macron also made invitations to partners and developing countries during the G7 summit. However, Brazil was eliminated once again. He chose to call Paris, Chile, Egypt, South Africa, Senegal, India and Rwanda.
Bolsonaro announced that in 2020, Donald Trump invited him to the summit to be held in the USA. But the pandemic and the Republican electoral defeat forced the White House to reconsider the case. Within the Brazilian government, hopes were high that Trump would involve Brazil in a new alliance to rethink the world in the post-pandemic era.
At a ministerial meeting in April 2020, then-Chancellor Ernesto Araújo stated that he was betting on the redefinition of the international system in the face of covid-19, and that there was a real possibility that Brazil would be part of a species. The new world guide alongside the USA.
In the G7, if China’s absence is a strategic and geopolitical issue, then in diplomatic circles Brazil’s situation is interpreted as a sign of the country’s loss of international prestige and the resistance of the rich countries to accept Bolsonaro’s presence in the country.
Brazil’s first real involvement in events in developed economies took place in 2003, when then-President Jacques Chirac invited the country and other developing countries to the Evian summit, then known as the G8. Brazil was part of the 2005 events in Scotland.
In 2006, Angela Merkel once again invited Brazil to her summit, which was repeated in Japan the following year and in Italy in 2008.
source: Noticias
