Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro backtracked on his earlier rejection of financial help from the G7 to fight fires in the Amazon rainforest — on the condition that Emmanuel Macron withdraws his “insults.”
Earlier Tuesday, Brazil Ambassador’s to France Luís Fernando Serra said on French TV that Brazil was rejecting the aid because the decision was taken without involving his country and the “language is ambiguous.”
“We refuse because we see interference. [It’s] help we didn’t ask for,” he said. “The G7 help was decided without Brazil.”
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But Bolsonaro later seemed to row back, telling reporters: “First of all, Macron has to take back his insults of me. He called me a liar. Once he does that, then we can talk,” the Independent reported.
The two countries have been at loggerheads for days. On Friday, ahead of the G7 in Biarritz, Macron called for the burning Amazon to lead the agenda of the summit, and said that Bolsonaro “lied to him” about the Mercosur free-trade agreement between the EU and Latin American countries.
Source: Brazil’s president might take G7 Amazon aid if Macron withdraws ‘insults’
