page_title: Argentina–Brazil relations
section_title: State visits
hierarchical_section_title: Argentina–Brazil relations / State visits
caption_attribution_description: Español: Los presidentes de la Argentina, Mauricio Macri, y de Brasil, Michel Temer, en la Residencia de Olivos.
context_page_description: The Argentina–Brazil relationship is both close and historical, and encompasses the economy, trade, culture, education, and tourism. From war and rivalry to friendship and alliance, this complex relationship has spanned more than two centuries. The countries also share a system of government, both being federal republics with a presidential system.
  Rio de Janeiro was the first capital to recognize Argentinian independence, whereas Buenos Aires’ was the first government to recognize Brazil's independence. After achieving independence from the Iberian crowns in the early nineteenth century, Argentina and Brazil inherited a series of unresolved territorial disputes from their colonial powers. The most serious breach in the relationship was the Cisplatine War, led by the Brazilian invasion and annexation of the Banda Oriental. Despite the numerous periods of muted hostility, the Argentine–Brazilian relationship was not defined by open hostility for most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
context_section_description: Since 2003, Presidential meetings are held every six months alternately in each country, and besides those there are more for other reasons (UNASUR, Mercosur, G20, etc.).
  Recent visits by the President of Brazil to Argentina
  Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
  22–25 May 2003, Buenos Aires – Inauguration of Néstor Kirchner as President of Argentina
  15–18 October 2003, Buenos Aires and El Calafate – Official state visit
  7–8 July 2004, Puerto Iguazú – Mercosur summit and private meeting with President Néstor Kirchner
  4–5 November 2005, Mar del Plata – 4th Summit of the Americas
  30 November 2005, Puerto Iguazú – Presidential meeting with Néstor Kirchner
  4 May 2006, Puerto Iguazú – Quadripartite meeting between the heads of state of Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia and Venezuela
  20–21 July 2006, Córdoba – Mercosur summit
  26–27 April 2007, Buenos Aires – Official state visit
  9–10 December 2007, Buenos Aires – Inauguration of Cristina Kirchner as President of Argentina
  21–23 February 2008, Buenos Aires – Official state visit
  30 June 1 July 2008, San Miguel de Tucumán – Mercosur and Unasur summits and private meeting with Cristina Kirchner
  3–4 August 2008, Buenos Aires – Official state visit
  22–23 April 2009, Buenos Aires – Official state visit
  27–28 August 2009, Bariloche – Unasur summit and private meeting with Cristina Kirchner
  3–4 May 2010, Buenos Aires – Unasur summit and private meeting with Cristina Kirchner
  25 May 2010, Buenos Aires – Guest at the Argentine bicentennial celebration
  2–3 August 2010, San Juan – Mercosur summit and private meeting with Cristina Kirchner
  27 October 2010, Buenos Aires, Death and state funeral of Néstor Kirchner
  Dilma Rousseff
  31 January 2011, Buenos Aires – Official state visit
  10 December 2011, Buenos Aires, swearing-in ceremony of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's second term as president.
  28–29 June 2012, Mendoza, 43rd Summit of Mercosur
  28 November 2012, Buenos Aires, Official visit
  10 December 2016, Buenos Aires, Presidential Inauguration of Mauricio Macri
  Recent visits by the President of Argentina to Brazil
  Eduardo Duhalde
  14 January 2003, Brasília – Official state visit
  Néstor Kirchner
  11 June 2003, Brasília – Official state visit
  15–16 March 2004, Brasília – Official state visit
  9 May 2005, Brasília – South America-Arab Countries summit and private meeting with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
  18–19 January 2006, Brasília – Official state visit
  25–26 April 2006, Brasília – Presidential meeting with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
  Cristina Kirchner
  23 May 2008, Brasília – 1st UNASUL summit
  6–8 September 2008, Brasília – Official state visit
  20 March 2009, São Paulo – Presidential meeting with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
  18 November 2009, Brasília – Presidential meeting with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
  29 July 2011, Brasilia, new Argentine embassy opening ceremony
  7 December 2012, Brasilia- Presidential meeting with Dilma Rouseff
  14–16 July 2014, Fortaleza, 6th BRICS Summit
  13–16 July 2015, Brasilia, 2015 Mercosur Summit
  Mauricio Macri
  16 January 2019, Official State Visit
caption: Former President Michel Temer and President Mauricio Macri in 2016.
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