Agência Brasil*
Brasília – Brazil to have official representation in Burkina Faso. The Official Gazette has published the decree establishing the Brazilian Embassy in the African country today (15). The decree was published on the same day Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took his first trip to Burkina Faso.
The embassy will be based in Ouagadougou. The decrees establishing the Brazilian embassies in the Republic of the Congo, in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania and in the Republic of Mali were also published today.
In Burkina Faso, Lula signed seven agreements in the areas of agriculture, sports and energy.
*Translated by Mark Ament
