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Brazil–Iraq relations are the foreign relations between Brazil and Iraq. Brazil maintains an embassy in Baghdad and Iraq maintains an embassy in Brasília. Both countries are full members of the Group of 77. Brazil was the first Latin American country to reopen its embassy in Iraq since the 1991 Gulf War.〔 ==History== Brazil first established diplomatic relations with Iraq in 1967,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title =Brazil to Resume Relations with Iraq )〕 and in late 1973, Brazil opened an embassy in Iraq〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title =Brazil - The Middle East )〕 and signed cooperation agreements with Iraq. In 1975, because of the deepening petroleum crisis and in search of petrodollar investments, Brazil favoured its foreign policy towards the Arab cause in three crucial votes in the UN. Brazil's military government upgraded its representation in Iraq by appointing a succession of four-star generals as ambassadors to Baghdad.〔 Brazil and Iraq had been major trading partners since the late 1970s. Brazil needed oil to run its industrial machine. Iraq needed food, technical support, appliances, automobiles and, perhaps most important, the "defensive" weapons made by Brazil. Brazil's relations with Iraq were downgraded during the Gulf War, when Brazil supported the U.N. Security Council sanctions imposed against Iraq. However since 2001, both countries resumed relations, in which the Brazilian government wanted to promote closer commercial ties with Baghdad and announced the re-activating of its embassy in Baghdad.〔 In the 1980s, Brazil was an important supplier of industrialized products to Iraq, and it imported significant volumes of oil from Iraq. At that time, trade between the two countries reached up to 4 billion U.S. dollars per year.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title =Brazil to reopen embassy in Iraq )〕 When the Iran-Iraq War broke out in 1980, nearly 35 percent of Brazil's oil imports were coming from Iraq.〔 In 1981 it had been reported that Brazil had sold low-grade uranium ore to Iraq.〔 The Brazilian newspaper Jornal da Tarde reported that about 40 Brazilian scientists were in the Osirak power plant during the 1981 Israeli bombing.〔(Brazil Uranium Sales To Iraq Stir Debate )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brazil–Iraq relations」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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