Timmermans, the EU allies with Lula to save the Amazon

(ANSA) - BUENOS AIRES, JAN 31 - "I believe that the European Union must build an alliance with President Lula to save the Amazon and stop deforestation. I will do my best for the EU to contribute and commit itself".

Thus the first vice-president of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans, in an interview with ANSA from Mexico City, at the end of his 10-day trip to Brazil, Colombia and Mexico.

    "If we continue at this pace, there will come a moment, not far away, in which the forests of the Amazon will begin to transform into a savannah. We must do everything to avoid it.

   We must collaborate with the countries concerned, creating possibilities for new development", he added.

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