{"id":50049,"date":"2024-03-28T15:15:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T05:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=50049"},"modified":"2024-03-28T15:15:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T05:15:39","slug":"macron-lula-hail-defense-ties-at-submarine-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=50049","title":{"rendered":"Macron, Lula hail defense ties at submarine launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>President Emmanuel Macron and counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday celebrated the launch of Brazil&#8217;s third French-designed submarine, which will help secure the country&#8217;s immense coastline, dubbed the &#8220;Blue Amazon.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The two men highlighted the importance of their countries&#8217; defense partnership during a time of major global unrest, at a ceremony at Brazil&#8217;s<br \/>\nultra-modern naval base in Itaguai near Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n<p>It is here that Brazil built the Tonelero, the third of four planned conventional diesel attack submarines, with training, equipment, and technical assistance from France.<\/p>\n<p>Under cloudy skies, the submarine was christened by First Lady Rosangela da Silva, nicknamed &#8220;Janja.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>France and Brazil&#8217;s defense ties &#8220;will allow two important countries, each on a continent, to prepare so that we can face this adversity, without worrying about any type of war, because we are defenders of peace,&#8221; said Lula.<\/p>\n<p>Despite differences, notably on the Ukraine war, Macron said &#8220;the great peaceful powers of Brazil and France&#8221; had &#8220;the same vision of the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Emmanuel Macron and counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday celebrated the launch of Brazil&#8217;s third French-designed submarine, which will help secure the country&#8217;s immense coastline, dubbed the &#8220;Blue Amazon.&#8221; The two men highlighted the importance of their countries&#8217; defense partnership during a time of major global unrest, at a ceremony at Brazil&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[955],"class_list":["post-50049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-macron-lula-hail-defense-ties-at-submarine-launch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}