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Registrados: Brazil Asserts Role on Iran

Fonte: FT

Brazil asserts role on Iran

By Daniel Dombey in Washington and Jonathan Wheatley in Rio de Janeiro

 

Brazil’s ambitions to play a bigger role in world affairs – and its capacity to frustrate US plans on Iran – will take centre stage on Saturday when President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva meets President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad in Tehran.

Mr Lula da Silva’s visit has been the focus of intensifying diplomatic efforts, amid Brazilian hopes he will find a compromise in the dispute over Iran’s nuclear programme and US fears that he could complicate efforts to agree a sanctions resolution at the United Nations.

US officials acknowledge that Brazil’s bid to chart a diplomatic path of its own – and similar efforts by other “rising powers” such as Turkey – are a new challenge for US foreign policy.

“As Brazil becomes more assertive globally and begins to assert its influence, we are going to bump into Brazil on new issues and in new places – such as Iran, the Middle East, Haiti,” Thomas Shannon, US ambassador to Brazil, told the Financial Times.

He said that while Brazil’s emergence was “very positive” overall, “it is challenging for both of us because it means we have to rethink how we understand our relationship”.

Mr Lula da Silva is due to discuss the Iran issue with Dmitry Medvedev, Russian president, in Moscow on Friday before continuing to Iran.

Although Moscow has said it could favour “targeted” measures on Tehran, Brazil’s state news agency on Thursday said its president would seek a commitment from Mr Medvedev not to support UN sanctions.

But the White House said Mr Medvedev and Barack Obama, US president, agreed in a telephone call on Thursday “to instruct their negotiators to intensify their efforts to reach conclusion as soon as possible” on a sanctions resolution.

The push for such measures is one of the Obama administration’s top international priorities. Hillary Clinton, US secretary of state, travelled to Brasília in March in a bid to convince Mr Lula da Silva to sign up to sanctions – but failed to win him over.

Some US officials hope that Mr Lula da Silva will come round to sanctions if – as they believe likely – Iran declines to reveal any compromises during his trip.

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