2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/59334We show that Vassiliev invariants separate braids on a closed oriented surface, and we exhibit an universal Vassiliev invariant for these braids in terms of chord diagrams labeled by elements of the fundamental group of the considered surface.22 pages, 9 figuresGeometric TopologyGroup Theory20F36 (Primary) 57M27,57N05 (Secondary)text