In a statement, US Vice President, Joe Biden, praised his meeting yesterday (21) with President Michel Temer, in New York. According to the note, the meeting served to discuss "greater cooperation between the United States and Brazil."

According to Joe Biden, Temer is committed to "maintain Brazil's role in regional and global leadership during the recent period of political change in the country."

The statement said the two leaders discussed prospects for the Brazilian energy policy reform and economic modernization of Brazil. It adds that Michel Temer and Joe Biden have pledged to work together to promote legal and orderly migration in the Western Hemisphere and deepen cooperation in Central America and Haiti. Biden and Temer, who met in 2012 when shared the same office reception desk of the President of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, agreed - during the meeting - to "work together to promote good governance, security and prosperity throughout the hemisphere. "

Return to Brazil

President Temer was on Sunday in New York and embarked yesterday back to Brazil. He arrived this morning to Brasilia. In the context of the United Nations (UN), President Michel Temer made a speech at the UN General Assembly and delivered to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon, the document in which Brazil ratified the Paris Agreement on climate change.

With this measure, Brazil confirmed that it is on the side of the countries that want to keep the increase in global average temperature below 2 ° C above pre-industrial levels and limit the temperature rise to 1.5 ° C above such levels by 2100. In addition to the commitment to the UN, Temer had other important meetings. One was a lunch with 250 businessmen who can invest in Brazil. And the other was a meeting with Joe Biden, at the request of the US vice president.

The Chamber of Commerce Brazil-United States and the Council of the Americas promoted Temer lunch with American businessmen. The purpose of the meeting was to present to the American investor the new plan of infrastructure concessions underway in Brazil and the Brazilian government's actions to give investment guarantees. According to the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Commerce, Hélio Magalhães, investors had a positive impression of Brazil and are now looking with interest the opportunities that are emerging.

Rules will be respected

In the evaluation of Hélio Magalhães, the greatest concern of business with Brazil was whether the existing investment rules would be respected or not. According to him, after the meeting, businessmen left with impression that the rules will be respected and that they will have legal support to invest with the adjustments to be implemented by the Brazilian Congress.

President Michel Temer promised investors that will give priority to legal security of contracts, control spending and labor reform. Magalhaes said that entrepreneurs also expressed concern over interest rates and expect them to be reduced with the adjustments to be made by the government.

According to the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Commerce, American entrepreneurs in general are interested in investing in the 34 energy infrastructure projects, airports, roads, ports, railways and mining presented by Temer. Most of these projects will be auctioned already next year and the other part will be for 2018. The novelty of the partner program announced a week ago and presented yesterday to the American business was the inclusion of the sanitation program, with concessions in area of water and sewage, to be opened in the states of Pará, Rio de Janeiro and Rondonia. The concessions in these areas were an addendum to the concession program requested by own state governments. Only in 2017 Brazil plans to raise US $ 24 billion with the awards program.