Brazil foreign minister calls meeting with US Rubio technical and productive

Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira said meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was "great", and had a productive tone focused on technical issues, Vieira told journalists in Washington on Thursday.

Vieira said that both governments will work in the next few weeks to set an agenda of meetings for trade negotiations and reaffirmed that Presidents Donald Trump and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva are expected to meet "soon".