VISIT TO BRAZIL
EXHIBITION
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Rio de Janeiro
09.03.2008
YOUR MESSAGES
- Gostaria de felicitar Sr. Presidente da Republica, por mais esta visita, a um dos Paises da nossa Lingua Portuguesa. Com sempre e como apanágio do seu percurso politico, o nosso Presidente revelou tacto e sensibilidade politica, vistando um País, que outrora governado por Rei Português, é hoje nosso irmão, sinal de...
Marilita Gonçalves, Portugal
- A visita do Senhor Presidente ao Brasil é marcante para a comunidade portuguesa. Registamos com muito orgulho, pelo significado que tem, o encontro dos dois presidentes no Real Gabinete Português de Leitura do Rio de Janeiro, uma instituição fundada por portugueses em 1837.
Laurentino Savi, Brasil
PICTURE GALLERY
DIARY OF THE VISIT
Meeting in the National History Museum
- Presidents of Portugal and Brazil meet in Rio de Janeiro
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The Presidents of Portugal and Brazil, Aníbal Cavaco Silva and Luís Inácio Lula da Silva, met in Rio de Janeiro, on the occasion of the State Visit of the Portuguese Head of State to Brazil.
The meeting was held in the National History Museum, prior to the official ceremony opening the exhibition “A New World, A New Empire”.
With the standards of the two countries raised in the patio of the Museum, the two Presidents listened to the Portuguese and Brazilian national anthems, played by a military band dressed up in uniforms of the time of King João VI, after which speeches were addressed by them both.
During the ceremony, the commemorative medal of the 200th anniversary of the arrival of the Portuguese court in Brazil was launched by the Medal Club/Brazilian Mint, with breakage of dies and cancellation of the stamps allusive to the event issued by the Posts & Telegraphs Company of Brazil.
After this, both Presidents, together with Mrs. Cavaco Silva and Mrs. Lula da Silva, visited the exhibition which will remain open to the public during the following months.
Read here the speech addressed by the President of the Republic07.03.2008
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