Brasilia: Brazil will not accept the financial assistance of 20 million dollars offered by the G7 countries to fight fires in the Amazon, Onyx Lorenzoni, chief minister of the Presidential Cabinet said.

"We appreciate the proposal, but perhaps those resources are more relevant to reforest Europe," Lorenzoni said, adding that French President Emmanuel Macron has many things to worry about in "the home and colonies" of his country, Cubadebate publishes.

In that context, Lorenzoni said that Brazil can teach "any nation" how to protect its forests. "There is no country that has a native (forest) coverage greater than ours," he said.

Prior to the statement, the news about the rejection was disclosed by O Globo, referring to its sources.

Bolsonaro Government officials declared throughout the day that if the aid was conditioned to control the resources, as Emmanuel Macron proposed, they would reject it.

On the last day of the G7 summit, Macron announced that they would seek to build an initiative for the Amazon and that it would be officially presented at the UN General Assembly with all the countries in the region.

"As if we were a colony or a no man's land”, the Brazilian president accused on Twitter.

Subsequently, Brazil's foreign minister, Ernesto Araújo, reiterated on his Twitter account that there are "mechanisms established under the UN Climate Convention to finance the fight against deforestation and reforestation."

For that reason, Araújo asked not to extrapolate environmental problems and called on the French Government to fulfill its environmental commitments, such as the Kyoto Protocol and the Green Climate Fund (GCF).

"The effort of some political currents to extrapolate real environmental problems in a" crisis invented as a pretext to introduce mechanisms for the external control of the Amazon is very evident, "Araújo tweeted.

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