-Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, whom he met in the week in ny , asked him for an emergency agreement to provide a foodstuff Britain lacks.
A spokesperson for Johnson’s office disputed Bolsonaro’s account, saying that wasn’t Downing Street’s recollection of the conversation without giving further details.
Bolsonaro, speaking on his weekly webcast to supporters, didn’t name the merchandise , but said he had passed Johnson’s request to his agriculture minister, Tereza Cristina.
“He wants an emergency agreement with us to import some quite food that’s lacking in England,” he said.
The president’s office didn’t immediately answer an invitation for clarification.A gas price surge has forced some British fertilizer plants to enclose recent weeks, resulting in a shortage of CO2 wont to put the fizz into beer and sodas and stun poultry and pigs before slaughter.
The British government, seeking to avert meat and poultry shortages, has extended emergency state support and warned its food producers to organize for a 400% rise in CO2 prices.
Ministers, including Johnson, have ignored warnings from some suppliers there might be shortages of traditional Christmas fare like roast turkey.
Bolsonaro said Johnson also asked him to assist increase Brazilian imports of whisky from Britain, but he added in his social media talk that this was up to non-public business and not his government.