Source: Overseas Network
Azevedo (left), Araujo (right)
Overseas network on March 30, a number of foreign media reported that on the 29th local time, Brazilian Defense Minister Fernando Azevedo Silva and Foreign Minister Ernesto Aaraujo successively announced their resignation, and shortly thereafter, the Brazilian Presidential Office announced that it had appointed two new people to replace Azevedo and Aaraujo respectively.
According to today's Russian report, Azevedo issued a statement on the 29th announcing that he would resign as defense minister. A few hours later, Brazilian Foreign Minister Aaraujo said he had made it clear to President Bolsonaro that he would resign as foreign minister. According to the report, Azevedo did not explain the reason for his resignation, and Aarau decided to resign as foreign minister after being criticized and pressured by many people.
According to the Jerusalem Post, after the two cabinet members announced their resignations, the Brazilian Presidential Press Office issued a statement on the same day saying that Carlos Alberto franco França was appointed as the new foreign minister, and Walter Souza braga netto was confirmed as the new minister of defense.
Azevedo has served as Brazil's defense minister since 2019, having previously been an adviser to the president of Brazil's Supreme Federal Court. Aaraujo, 53, has been Brazil's foreign minister since January 2019. During the COVID-19 pandemic, some of Aaraujo's foreign policy has caused discontent among Brazilian politicians. (Overseas Network Yao Kaihong)