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Brazilian officials will host the first meeting in over a decade of the Brazil-Russia High-Level Commission for Cooperation (CAN) later today. The event in Brasília will be co-chaired by Vice President Geraldo Alckmin — also Brazil’s industry and trade minister — and Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. 

The commission was first established in the late 1990s and has convened seven times since, the last meeting coming in 2015, when then-Vice President Michel Temer and then-PM Dmitri Medvedev met in Moscow. It serves as a public forum for bilateral governmental dialogue involving high-level ministers and officials outside presidential meetings. 

A key goal of today’s meeting, according to the Brazilian government, is…

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