Recently, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazilian President and Nicolas Sarkozy, French President signed a deal for the production in Brazil of five submarines, with one nuclear-propelled, and 50 helicopters for the Brazilian Defense Forces with French technology.
Additionally, as part of the French-Brazilian Strategic Partnership’s Action Plan, the two sides signed agreements in the educational, biodiversity, and aerospace areas. The two parties agreed to motivate the integration as well between Brazil and neighboring French Guyana, which includes the construction of a new bridge over the Oiapoque River, a previous project.

At a press conference President Sarkozy said, “The only possibility of French Guyana developing itself is by connecting itself to this powerful nation that Brazil is.” President Lula said that the recent agreement’s main purpose is the protection of Brazil’s deep-water offshore oil fields. He said, “The agreement will allow our navy to have top-notch equipment to better patrol our extensive coast.”

A consortium of French Eurocopter and Brazilian Helibras will build the new 50 helicopters in Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais states. The first batch of these helicopters will be served to the Brazilian military in 2010. The contract for the building of the four conventional Scorpene submarines along with the nuclear-propelled one comprises the construction of a shipyard and a naval military base in Brazil.

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