Lula’s Trips and Activities in 2012

Below you can read the details of Brazil’s former president Luiz Inácio
Lula da Silva international trips in 2012. For details about trips in
other years click here. 

TRIPS AND ACTIVITIES IN 2012

• Country: Argentina (Buenos Aires and Mar del Plata) Date: October 16–18, 2012

Activities:
– Meeting with the Ambassador of Brazil to Argentina, Ênio Cordeiro (October 16, 2012)
– Meeting with the President of the Republic of Argentina, Cristina Kirchner (October 17, 2012)
-Interview with newspaper La Nación (October 17, 2012)
http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1518253-lula-da-silva-la-democracia-es-alternancia
– Meeting with leaders of the Frente para la Victória (October 17, 2012)

• Countries: South Africa (Pretoria/Johannesburg) / Mozambique (Maputo) / Ethiopia (Addis Ababa) Date: November 15 – 21, 2012

Activities:

South Africa (Pretoria)

– Meeting with the President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma. (November 16, 2012)
– Seminar “Frank Dialogue” with young leaders organized by the Steve
Biko Foundation (Stephen Biko was the Chief Architect of the black
consciousness movement.), (November 17, 2012)
– Meeting with former Minister of planning, in the Mandela Government, Jay Naidoo, (November 17, 2012)
– Meeting with the Board of Cosatu Trade Unions (Congress of South Africa Trade Unions)
(November 17, 2012)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W _ tOcN0IMA
– Meeting with former President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki (November 17, 2012)
– Visit to the Apartheid Museum (November 18, 2012)

• Mozambique (Maputo)

– Lecture for working class movements “Fighting Social
Inequality” (Samora Machel documentation center, headed by Graça
Machel) (November 19, 2012)
http://www.dw.com/pt/em-mo%C3%A7ambique-lula-defende-fim-de-depend%C3%AAncia-do-exterior/a-16394458 

– Meeting with the President of the Republic of Mozambique, Armando Guebuza (November 19, 2012)
– Meeting with Graça Machel, wife of Nelson Mandela (November 18, 2012)
– Meeting with former President of the Republic of Mozambique Joaquim Chissano (November 19, 2012)
– Visit to the Open University of Brazil. (November 20, 2012)
-Antiretrovirals factory tour of Maputo; joint collaboration between
the Governments of Brazil and Mozambique (November 20, 2012)
– Meeting with the Ambassador of Brazil in Maputo, Ligia Maria Scherer, November 20, 2012

• Ethiopia (Addis Ababa)

– Activities for the promotion of the international forum for eradicating hunger in Africa (November 21, 2012)
– Meeting with President of the African Union, Dlamini-Zuma, at the
headquarters of the African Union to promote the international forum for
eradicating hunger in Africa (November 21, 2012)
http://www.institutolula.org/uniao-africana-fao-e-instituto-lula-somam-esforcos-para-combater-afome-
na-africa/
– Visit to the Palace of Government and meeting with the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Hailemariam Desalegn (November 21, 2012)
– Meeting with the Ambassador of Brazil in Addis Ababa, Isabel Heyvaert

• Country: India (New Delhi) Date: November 21 – 23, 2012

Activities:

– Audience with Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh (November 22, 2012)
– Meeting with President of India, Pranab Mukherjee (November 20, 2012)
– Reception at the Brazilian Ambassador’s residence in New Delhi, Carlos Duarte (November 22, 2012)
– Ceremony for the award of the Indira Gandhi Prize to former President Lula (award granted annually by India in recognition
the efforts to promote peace, development and a new world  economic order (November 22, 2012)
– Conference – Nehru Memorial Lecture (Speech in honor of Jawaharlal
Nehru, first Prime Minister of India and considered the founder of the
Indian democratic State) (November 23, 2012)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-X2neBYP _ g

• Countries: Germany (Berlin) / Quatar (Doha) / France (Paris) / Spain (Barcelona) Date: December 5–12, 2012

Activities:

Germany (Berlin)

– Welcome Meeting with the President of IGMETALL, Berthold Huber (December 5, 2012)
– Meeting with the Brazilian Ambassador in Berlin, Everton Vieira Vargas (December 6, 2012)
– Lecture at the International Conference of the Steelworkers Union
IGMETALL, “Changing course for a better life “(December 7, 2012)
http://noticias.terra.com.br/em-berlim-lula-critica-politica-de-austeridade-europeia,17087d942858b310VgnCLD200000bbcceb0aRCRD.html 

– Meeting “On the way to becoming a powerhouse: the role of Brazil in
the new global order”, organized by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
(FES) and German Social Democratic Party (SPD) (December 7, 2012))
http://noticias.terra.com.br/brasil/lula-critica-onu-e-defende-mudancas-em-conselho-de-seguranca,400823770777b310VgnCLD200000bbcceb0aRCRD.html 

Qatar (Doha)

– An audience with his Highness, the Emir of the State in Qatar, Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani (December 9, 2012))
– Meeting with Avelina Ferraz, Francisco Araújo (Mayor of the
municipality of Arcos de Valdevez), Pedro Teixeira (Secretary of
Culture) and Fernando Morais (December 10, 2012)

France (Paris)

– Lecture at the “I forum for Social progress-the growth as exit to
the crisis” (Organized jointly by the Institute and the Foundation Jean
Jaures) (December 11 and 12, 2012)
http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2012/12/13/la-reform-de-la-governance-internationale-butte-sur-les-crispations
occidentales_1805191_3234.html
– Meeting with Mo Ibrahim, Chairman of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation
(Foundation created in 2006 to focus on the importance of leadership and
governance in the development of Africa. Founded by Dr. Mo Ibrahim, a
Sudanese businessman and philanthropist.) (December 11, 2012)
– Meeting with the President of France, François Hollande (December 11, 2012)
– Dinner hosted by the President of the National Assembly of France, Claude Bartolone (December 12, 2012)
– Meeting with the Brazilian Ambassador in Paris, José Maurício Bustani

Spain (Barcelona)

– Ceremony of the Generalitat Catalonia award to former President Lula (December 13, 2012)

http://www.lavanguardia.com/politica/20121213/54357933897/lula-premio-internacional-catalunya-artur-mas.html 

– Lunch with former Spanish President Felipe González (December 13, 2012)
– Meeting with the Brazilian Ambassador to Spain Paulo Campos