The American president and the Portuguese prime minister were photographed comparing ties prior to the summit that ends this Tuesday in Rio de Janeiro. Portugal participated as an observer.
Of similar color and pattern, the ties that Joe Biden and Luís Montenegro wore on the first day of the G20 summit, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, appeared in a Reuters photograph and these similarities seem to have been a topic of conversation between the two political leaders. This was the first time that Portugal participated in the summit as an observer.
The event was the scene of other photographs that became important topics. One of them was familiar, in which three of the world’s main protagonists did not count: Joe Biden; Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau; and the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni. The three did not appear in the portrait because they arrived late for the photo session that took place on Monday.
Biden’s delay that left him out of the group photo and Lula’s visible discomfort with Milei. Behind the scenes of the G20 meeting
In other settings, another photographic controversy was recorded: the tension between the host, the president of Brazil, Lula da Silva, and the Argentine president, the ultra-liberal Javier Milei. The newspaper O Globo made a compilation of welcoming photographs of Lula with various heads of State or Government, in which the Brazilian President appears smiling welcoming his guests. Except for Milei, in this photograph both appear with their faces closed.
Portugal was one of the countries invited to the summit, having participated for the first time in the event as an observer at the invitation of the Brazilian presidency. On the sidelines of the summit, Montenegro on Monday declared it was open to discussing a tax on the super-rich, but admitted that neither Portugal nor the G20 are “yet in a position to make a decision” on the matter.
This Tuesday he spoke about one of the main topics of the day: the signing of a decree by Vladimir Putin that authorizes the broader use of nuclear weapons. And he said he hoped that the threats were nothing more than words, reiterating his “vehement condemnation” of the war in Ukrainian territory after “a thousand days of war against democracy, human rights, the values and principles that Portugal defends in the international context.” ”.
The trip from Montenegro to Brazil ends this Wednesday. The day will be dedicated to contact with the Portuguese community.
Source: Observadora
