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Brazil's Bid for Foreign Markets
Jun 12, 2013 | 15:44 GMT

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L) and his Brazilian counterpart, Antonio Patriota, at a news conference in Rio de Janeiro on June 11.
(VANDERLEI ALMEIDA/AFP/Getty Images)
Summary
Meetings between the Russian and Brazilian foreign ministers June 11 will focus on relatively unexciting topics such as agricultural trade. But they come as Brazil appears to be increasingly playing the United States and Russia off one another in what may be a serious bid for foreign market access — particularly with the United States.
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