Brazil's neighbours call for meeting and Amazon pact as fires rage


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  • Wednesday, 28 Aug 2019

Colombian President Ivan Duque and his Peruvian counterpart Martin Vizcarra pose for a photo during a meeting of the V Binational Cabinet in Pucallpa, Peru August 27, 2019. Peruvian Presidency/Handout via REUTERS

LIMA (Reuters) - Peru and Colombia called on Tuesday on fellow Amazonian countries to attend a presidential meeting next month on the forest fires raging in Brazil and Bolivia and to forge a pact to protect the world's largest tropical forest.

The meeting is scheduled to take place in the Amazonian region of Leticia in Colombia on Sept. 6, the two countries said in a statement after Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra and Colombian President Ivan Duque met.

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