ブラジル大統領、気候変動で日本に期待　トランプ外交「正しくない」―２４日から国賓訪問

　【ブラジリア時事】ブラジルのルラ大統領は１８日、ブラジリアの大統領府で邦人記者団と会見した。同国が議長国として１１月に開く国連気候変動枠組み条約第３０回締約国会議（ＣＯＰ３０）に関連し、「日本の科学技術は（気候変動問題の）解決策を見つけるのに役立つ」と述べ、会議の成功に向けて日本との連携に期待を表明した。パナマ運河の奪還などを掲げるトランプ米大統領の外交に対し「正しくない」と異議を唱えた。
　今年は日本とブラジルの外交関係樹立から１３０年の節目に当たり、ルラ氏は今月２４～２７日の日程で日本を国賓として訪問する。ブラジルにとって日本との貿易額は年間約１２０億ドル（約１兆８０００億円）と、首位の中国の１割にも満たない。ルラ氏は「少な過ぎる」と語り、日本が輸入を禁止しているブラジル産牛肉も含め、貿易拡大に意欲を示した。
　トランプ氏が１月の就任初日、地球温暖化対策の国際的な枠組み「パリ協定」からの再離脱を命令したのは「地球にとって非常に深刻だ」と指摘。関税を武器に他国に要求を突き付ける姿勢にも疑問を呈しつつ、「問題に気付くように応援したい」とトランプ氏が望めば電話会談に臨む用意があるとも語った。（2025/03/19-08:29）

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Tuesday expressed hope for cooperation with Japan on tackling climate change, as the South American country will chair the COP30 climate conference later this year.
   Lula told Japanese reporters at the presidential office in Brasilia that Japanese science and technology can play a role in finding solutions for issues regarding climate change. COP30, or the 30th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, is scheduled to be held in Belem, near the mouth of the Amazon river in northern Brazil, in November.
   This year marks the 130th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and Brazil. Lula is set to make a state visit to Japan over four days from Monday.
   The Brazilian president said that trade between the two countries is too little, and called for expanding trade including Japanese imports of Brazilian beef, which Tokyo effectively prohibits. Brazil's trade with Japan totals only around 12 billion dollars per year, less than 10 pct of its trade with China.
   Lula slammed U.S. President Donald Trump's diplomatic policies, including his plan to take back control of the Panama Canal. Trump's order on his first day in office in January to pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement, an international framework to fight climate change, again was very serious for the planet, Lula said.