BRAZIL-MERKEL/MILITARY HONOURS Germany's Merkel greeted with military honours in Brazil

Record ID: 143213

  • Title: BRAZIL-MERKEL/MILITARY HONOURS Germany's Merkel greeted with military honours in Brazil
  • Date: 20th August 2015
  • Summary: ***WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** MERKEL WALKING UP RAMP PAST GUARDS, GREETING BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT DILMA ROUSSEFF MERKEL AND ROUSSEFF HEARING BAND PLAYING NATIONAL ANTHEM ROUSSEFF AND MERKEL SHAKING HANDS VARIOUS OF ROUSSEFF AND MERKEL GREETING DELEGATES ROUSSEFF AND MERKEL WALKING UP RAMP
  • Embargoed: 4th September 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Brazil
  • Country: Brazil
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVACMAE2C0ULRLH2WXGA9VAZUDN6
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: German Chancellor Angela Merkel was welcomed with military honours in the Brazilian capital on Thursday (August 20).
    Merkel arrived in Brasilia on Wednesday (August 19) for a two-day visit with a delegation including representatives from 11 government departments and large German companies.
    Brazil's Dilma Rousseff, currently facing tumbling popularity rates as the Brazilian economy heads toward a painful recession, greeted the Chancellor during the military ceremony.
    No major corporate deals are due to be announced on the trip but investment frameworks will be high on the agenda for the Germans, who have 1,300 companies active in Brazil - an economy reeling from its sharpest slowdown in three decades.
    German government officials want to use the trip to lobby for German companies to be involved in a $57 billion investment programme in railways, harbours and airports announced by Rousseff.
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