BRASILIA: Brazilian officials have yet to receive visas to attend the UN General Assembly in New York next week, the foreign ministry said Monday, as trade and diplomatic ties with Washington remain strained.
The trial and conviction of Brazil’s far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro angered his ally Donald Trump, the US president who has already slapped a 50-percent tariff on Brazilian imports.
“We have received information from the US government that the visas have not yet been granted. They are being processed,” foreign ministry official Marcelo Marotta Viegas told a press conference.
He said a refusal to grant the visas would be a “legal violation” by the United States.
Viegas did not say how many visas were pending approval.
