Despite US’s Stand Brazil Warns It Won’t Recognize Honduras’ New President

Amorim and Lula The Brazilian minister of Foreign Affairs, Celso Amorim, reaffirmed on Thursday divergences with the United States regarding the political crisis in Honduras before the opening of the Amazon basin countries and France Summit on climate change in Manaus, Brazil.

Amorim spent over an hour on the phone with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday, and Honduras was one of the topics of the conversation.

For Brazil, the Honduran presidential election scheduled for next Sunday will not be recognized if deposed Honduran President José Manuel Zelaya is not reinstated in office. However, the US President Barack Obama administration believes "elections are a good starting point" to overcome the crisis and will be sending independent observers to monitor the event.

"There is an obsession that if Brazil does not agree with the United States a beam will fall on our heads. There are not major divergences," pointed out the Brazilian minister.

What really matters added Amorim is that Brazilian President Lula and Obama always manage to discuss issues in a very friendly tone.

Amorim also pointed out that the Organization of American States (OAS) is not divided on the issue. The Brazilian position is shared by an overwhelming majority of Latinamerican and Caribbean countries, while only the US and Panama are willing to accept Sunday’s results as legitimate.

"The coup d'état cannot legitimate a government, but we will not turn this in a confrontation point. It is not in the interests of the United States that Honduras becomes (exclusively) linked to them," said Amorim.

Mercopress

Tags:

You May Also Like

What Brazil Needs Are Real Jobs

The director of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in Brazil, Armand Pereira, affirmed that ...

One-Note Thought

I heard more than I saw, I bended my knees and almost on all ...

Indy 500: Boys from Brazil Raring to Win

Mark your calendars for May 25th. Penske, Toyota position Hélio Castroneves for three-peat at ...

Serra Still in Lead of Brazil’s Presidential Race Despite Lula’s Opposition

Dilma Rousseff, presidential candidate of Brazil’s ruling coalition will continue with the current economic ...

New York Bullish on Brazilian Stocks

Shares of Brazilian companies traded in the Nova York Stock Exchange (NYSE) also known ...

8.3%! Brazil Hadn’t Grown That Much in 18 Years.

Thanks to some revisions by the IBGE (Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia and EstatÀ­stica – ...

Ends and Butts

The term popozuda (big-buttock woman) has become not only a fashionable word but also ...

Brazil Adds 4 Million US-made Female Condoms to Its AIDS-fighting Arsenal

The Brazilian Ministry of Health has ordered 4 million FC Female Condom from Chicago-based ...

30,000 Women Start World Protest in Brazil

Over 30 thousand women from Brazil, Canada, Cameroon, and Burkina Faso are expected to ...

Schooling Is Not Helping Women Narrow Gap With Men in Brazil

The Synthesis of Social Indicators, 2004, released February 23 in Rio de Janeiro by ...