Luciana Lima and Renata Giraldi Reporters Agência Brasil
Brasília – As for the exchange of gifts between the presidents, a traditional part of the protocol of state visits, Dilma Rousseff, in the name of the Brazilian government, will give the president of the United States, Barack Obama, an album of artistic photos (“fotos artísticas”) of the city of Rio de Janeiro.

However, another part of the protocol of state visits is that the actual handing over of the gifts is not always by the presidents. So, today, the Brazilian Foreign Ministry’s Chief of Protocol, Maria de Lujam Vinkler, will give Obama’s gift to an American diplomat.

The photo album was selected over various other choices: an album of landscape paintings, engravings, artisan handicrafts and a collection of recordings of Brazilian popular music.

While Obama is in Rio a number of local soccer teams – Flamengo, Fluminese and Vasco, among others - have offered to give him team shirts. In July 2009, former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva gave Obama an autographed official team shirt for the Brazilian national team that played in the 2008 World Soccer Cup.

In September 2009, at a G-20 meeting, Obama gave Lula a crystal sculpture by Hans Grado Frabel (born in 1941 in Germany, Frabel has lived in the US since 1965 where he is a pioneer in lampwork glass art, also known as torch-worked).

Allen Bennett – translator/editor The News in English
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