Lula visits India and South Korea to strengthen trade and partnerships

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva traveled this Tuesday (17) for an official visit to India and South Korea in order to strengthen commercial ties and partnerships with the two Asian countries. He will keep his schedule until Sunday (22).

In New Delhi, the capital of India, Lula will visit this Wednesday (18) the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, who was in Brazil in July 2025 during the BRICS Summit.

Itamaraty informs that this will be Lula’s fourth trip to India, the second of the current term. The agenda represents new opportunities for bilateral cooperation, especially in economic, tourism, agricultural, energy and sustainable terms.

According to Ambassador Susan Kleebank, Secretary for Asia and the Pacific at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brazil and India have maintained a strategic partnership since 2006 and relations are going through a period of growth, supported by economic and technological complementarities.

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“With more than 1.4 billion inhabitants, India is today the most powerful country in the world and has the fourth largest GDP on the planet. The Indian economy is the fastest growing among the G20 countries. India’s economic growth rate has remained at around 7% to 8% over the last few years”, says the ambassador.

On the agenda, Lula is scheduled to participate in the Artificial Intelligence Summit, which will be held in the Indian capital on Thursday (19). The event expects the presence of 40 thousand people from 50 countries. This will be the first time that a President of the Brazilian Republic will participate in a high-level global event on artificial intelligence.

“This topic, a few years ago, was not discussed in international forums, but today it has acquired a very important connotation. It is symptomatic, not only of the importance of the topic, but also of our engagement and the participation of the Brazilian government in these initiatives”, says ambassador Eugênio Vargas Garcia, director of the Department of Science, Technology and Intellectual Property of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

South Korea

From Friday (20), the president will hold a schedule in Seoul, South Korea, at the invitation of President Lee Jae Myung. This will be the Brazilian leader’s third visit to the country, the first as a state visit. On that occasion, the 2026-2029 Triennial Action Plan will be adopted, which aims to raise the level of relationships between countries towards a strategic partnership.

“In the economic-financial aspect, South Korea is one of Brazil’s main and most traditional partners. The visit cements the excellent relationship between the two presidents and symbolizes the importance that the countries give to the bilateral relationship, established more than six decades ago. We want to take advantage of the immense existing potential and deepen relations with this very important country that is South Korea”, highlights ambassador Susan Kleebank.

Among the expected results is encouraging the resumption of a new investment cycle in Brazil, attracting capital from Korea in technological, agricultural and cosmetics flows.