Moscow, Sep 16 (Prensa Latina) Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Brazilian Vice President Michel Temer, will lead the session here today the High Level Intergovernmental Commission with the aim of achieving an increase in commercial exchanges.
In closing yesterday the Brazil-Russia Business Forum on Cooperation in Strategic Sectors Temer emphasized that his presence and Medvedev's at today's meeting are an expression of interest from both sides to increase cooperation.

He recalled the agreement signed by President Vladimir Putin and his Brazilian counterpart, Dilma Rousseff, during the president's visit to Russia in late 2012, in which statesmen raised the challenge of achieving an annual trade exceeding 10 billion dollars.

Despite the limitations caused by the global crisis and other barriers existing at present, we must meet that goal, he said.

The vice president vowed to achieve positive results as in previous committee meetings, both in Moscow and in Brasilia.

For his part, David Barioni, president of the Brazilian Agency for Promotion of Exports and Investments, considered the presence in Russia of a delegation integrated by ministers and businessmen as a major event.

We are two countries of the BRICS group (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) with very similar economies, he explained to Prensa Latina.

Brazil makes major food exports to Russia, and now we attempt to introduce value-added products in machines, renewable energy, hospital and stomatological equipment, he said.

Regarding the Eurasian country, he considered it is a huge market that offers many opportunities to the South American nation.

Barioni set in three thousand 800 million dollars the value of Brazilian goods arriving in Russia, and in three billion the Brazilian imports from Russia.

Meanwhile, Jose Joao Stival, director of Brazil's exports company Cooperfrigu confirmed that that nation's beef has already won 10 percent of the Russian market, and as for the chicken it topped between 15 and 20 percent.

For Brazil, Russia is today its largest and most important beef market, he told Prensa Latina.

Also the food sphere expert Rogerio Gonçalves added that due to sanctions from the United States and its allies for Russia's position in relation to the Ukrainian conflict, and Kremlin's countermeasures, Moscow increased the volume of imports of Brazilian meat.

At this stage were also built 30 plants in Brazil to process meat exported to Russia, he explained.

All these topics are present today in the debates of the High Level Intergovernmental Commission in Moscow.