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Macri meets Temer in China; Brazilian president will visit Buenos Aires next month

The relationship with Temer is “very good and very positive,” a representative of Macri’s delegation as quoted by La Nación

Argentina's president Mauricio Macri greeted Brazil’s confirmed head of state Michel Temer for the first time since Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment and removal last week as the two met briefly during the G20 summit taking place in China.

 The meeting confirmed the good terms between the governments of Mercosur bloc’s two biggest economies, after the Let’s Change (Cambiemos) administration was one of the few regional leaders (next to Chile, Peru and Paraguay) to quickly recognize Temer’s replacement of Rousseff as fully within Brazil’s institutional framework.

After the meeting, further details were revealed about Temer’s first state visit to Argentina in October, which will be his first trip as head of state outside Brazil.

In what is part of Macri’s “new positive agenda” with the Brazilian administration, the meeting held in the G-20 summit’s convention centre served to re-launch relations between the two countries according to Argentine diplomatic sources.

The relationship with Temer is “very good and very positive,” a representative of Macri’s delegation was quoted by La Nación

It is anticipated that Brazil’s president will most likely visit Buenos Aires on October 8 to go over the bilateral relationship between the two countries, discussing trade, Mercosur’s future, and their joint strategy in international forums.

Temer was originally scheduled to visit before then, on October 3, but the Brazilian leader said he wanted to wait until he has fulfilled all his obligations so he can be a president in full capacity. Anyhow the two leaders most probably will again meet in New York during the coming UN General Assembly.

The Macri's administration position has been consistent all along the impeachment and resulting removal, arguing that they respected Brazil’s “institutional process”, and has now been confirmed after the Argentine president meeting with Temer and pledges to continue working together.

This followed the position of the Foreign Ministry’s statement the day after Rousseff’s impeachment. “Argentina renews it wishes to continue working with the government of Brazil to resolve issues of mutual interest in the bilateral, regional and multilateral agenda, as well as the strengthening of the Mercosur,” the Ministry stated then.