The launch is part of a Prosub program launched by French president Nicolas Sarkozy and Lula da Silva in 2008. Macron and his Brazilian counterpart also announced a plan to invest 1 billion euros in the Amazon rainforest.
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00:00 Presidents of France and Brazil launched a diesel-powered submarine. It was built in
00:05 Brazil using French technology at a shipyard outside Rio de Janeiro. This is the third
00:11 submarine launched as part of the joint effort. It is part of a PROSA program launched by
00:16 Nicolas Sarkozy and Lula da Silva in 2008.
00:19 "In just 16 years, this site in Itaguai was nothing but forests and swamps. It is now
00:30 one of the most modern submarine construction sites in the world and the only one in the
00:37 southern hemisphere."
00:38 "This geopolitical vision that is ours, that of being great powers that cooperate
00:43 in the service of an international order and its balances, that refuses the partition of
00:50 the world, that refuses the vassalization that we would like to attract sometimes, that is
00:55 what binds us."
00:59 Macron is the first French president to visit Brazil in 11 years. The two countries announced
01:07 a plan to invest 1 billion euros in the Amazon. The money will be spread over the next four
01:14 years to protect the rainforest.
01:21 [SWOOSH]