Chancellor Angela Merkel and Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff will hold talks in Germany on March 5 and March 6, German government spokesman Georg Streiter said today at a regular press conference in Berlin.

Merkel and Rousseff will meet in Hanover to open the CeBit technology fair of which Brazil is this year’s partner country, Streiter said. Merkel and Rousseff will give speeches on March 5 and hold a joint press conference on March 6, he said.

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