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Alliances of Brazil:

Alliance Baleia - Brazil, Russia, India, China: Alliance of joint defence.

Brazil-China Alliance: Agreement of Space Cooperation.

Brazil-India Alliance: Cooperation in Space Research.

Brazil-Russia Alliance: Aeronautics and Aerospace, Cooperation Economic-Commercial and Scientific-Technical and Military.

Brazil-South Africa Alliance: Agreement on Military Cooperation.

G-3 or IBAS - India, Brazil, South Africa: Cooperation in the Areas of Science and Technology, Defence and Transport.

Brazil-Germany Alliance: Agreement on Military Cooperation.

Brazil-France Alliance: Military and Technological Alliance, Agreement on Cooperation in Advanced Technologies, nuclear energy, space technologies and their industrial applications, and scientific cooperation in the space sector, technology, defence, especially in sectors aeronautical, naval and land, and industrial biotechnology.

Three of the South - Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela: Military Industry, Aerospace and Shipbuilding.

Brazil - Ukraine: space area, cooperation in the field of Defense, interchange of military equipment, scientific and technological knowledge.

Brazil-Guyana relations: Brazil has provided military assistance to Guyana in the form of warfare training and logistics.

G-4: Is an alliance among India, Germany, Japan and Brazil for the purpose of supporting each other's bid for permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council.

CPLP: Community of Portuguese Language Countries. Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, São Tomé, Príncipe and East Timor. Official interested Venezuela, Croatia, Ukraine, Romania, Macau, Morocco, Galiza, Philippines, Andorra.

ACTO: Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization. Its member states are: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela

Mercosur: Southern Common Market.Is a Regional Trade Agreement among Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, becoming full members Venezuela, associate members Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, observers, Mexico, future member Israel.

G20 developing nations.

G20 industrial nations.

G15: Algeria, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iran, Jamaica, Kenya, Nigeria, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Venezuela and Zimbabwe. It was set up to foster cooperation and provide input for other international groups.

G15: The G15 is an informal group of nations composed by the current 15 leading economies of the world: USA, China, India, Japan, Germany, UK, Brazil, France, Russia, Italy, Spain, South Korea, Mexico, Canada and Indonesia. In 2008 these countries together comprised 73,3% of the world Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by Purchasing Power Parity (PPP).

UN: United Nations.

WTO: World Trade Organization.

UL: Latin Union.

CI-A: Ibero-American Summit.

ALADI: Latin American Integration Association.

OAS: Organization of American States

In the Future:
OPEC: Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.
USAN: Union of South American Nations.

exército - Army: 190.000
Marinha - Navy: 48.600
Força Aérea - Air Force: 73.500
Polícia Militar - Military Police: 411.900

Active personnel: total 724.000

Reserve personnel: total 1,115,000

obligatory military service: 1,785,930

TOTAL - 3.624.930 soldiers more 45.586.036 men aged between 19 and 49 years available for recruitment