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06SAOPAULO1013
2006-09-20 10:51:00
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Consulate Sao Paulo
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EUROPE: POPULAR UNREST IN BUDAPEST; UNITED NATIONS: KOFI

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E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
SUBJECT: EUROPE: POPULAR UNREST IN BUDAPEST; UNITED NATIONS: KOFI
ANNAN; SAO PAULO
UNCLAS SAO PAULO 001013

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E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
SUBJECT: EUROPE: POPULAR UNREST IN BUDAPEST; UNITED NATIONS: KOFI
ANNAN; SAO PAULO

1. "Announced Crisis Reflects Increasing Dissatisfaction With Entry
in the EU" Leading national circulation daily liberal Folha de S.
Paulo's Budapest correspondent reports (9/20): "The tape showing the

confirmation that Hungary's Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany lied
about the budget during four years is just the iceberg tip of
problems that Hungarian citizens are expected to face from now on.
With the leak of the tape, what the economic analyst have suspected
was confirmed: economic figures in Hungary have been manipulated for
a long time, especially because of EU's pressures so that the nation
quickly normalize its economy by reducing the public deficit to be
able to use resources in structural reforms.... The European
Commission's pressure are expected to increase even more, thereby
complicating the life of the government as well as of the citizens,
who will be affected by further tax increases in coming months....
Monday's protests reflect not only a current situation of intense
political instability in Hungary, but mainly the Hungarians'
dissatisfaction with their nation's role in the EU."

2. "Secretary Tries To Rehabilitate The UN"
Political columnist Newton Carlos commented (9/10) in leading
national circulation daily liberal Folha de S. Paulo: "The boldness
with which UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, who is concluding his
term, have acted, especially in opposition to the US, predicts
perhaps more affirmative days for the organization.... The UN was
knocked out with the invasion of Iraq without the Security Council's
authorization. The Bush administration put in practice its
'preventive attack' doctrine.... With the worsening of the situation
in Iraq, Annan gradually raised the tone of his 'observations.' Now
he said before Condoleezza Rice what Bush does not want to hear -
that Iraq is on the threshold of a civil war and destabilizes the
region. He visited ten nations, including Syria and Iran, in an
effort to implement a Security Council's resolution aimed at a
ceasefire in Lebanon. He's trying to affirm the UN's universal
nature.... The election of a new secretary general will be decided
by negotiations among the five permanent members, which have right
to veto any resolution. The idea of 'parliamentarizig' the UN,
giving more powers to the General Assembly, has been revived.
However, the UN continues submitted to a system of powerful nations.
But its survival and Annan's freer eloquence are considered
advances."

McMullen