Dilma travels to México for G-20 summit

Last night president Dilma Rousseff traveled to Los Cabos, México, for the seventh G-20 summit that brings together the world biggest economies (over 80% of the planet”s GDP – South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, South Korea, United States, France, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, United Kingdom, Russia, Turkey and the European Union; Spain, Columbia, Chile, Ethopia, Cambodia and Benin were also invited to this summit).

There will be three working sessions spread over two days (today, Monday, June 18, and tomorrow, Tuesday, June 19).

 The principal goal of the leaders will be to find a way to overcome the crisis and get the world economy growing again.

The European crisis will probably dominate the conversation. President Dilma will explain measures taken by Brasilia to confront international financial problems through consumption stimulus packages and domestic investments.

Dilma will take advantage of the opportunity for bilateral discussions with leaders who will not attend the Rio+20 conference, such as Barack Obama of the United States and Angela Merkel of Gemany, to push for agreement on the wording of the Rio+20 United Nations Sustainable Development Conference final document that has to be approved by June 22.