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09SAOPAULO229
2009-04-20 12:53:00
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Consulate Sao Paulo
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MEDIA REACTION SAO PAULO: North Korea, Cuba and Iran
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SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION SAO PAULO: North Korea, Cuba and Iran
04-16-2009
Media Reaction - East Asia and Pacific: planned missile launch,
nuclear program; South and Central Asia: Afghanistan, Iran, regional
and global influence; Western Hemisphere: Cuba, governance; Sao
Paulo
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Title- Provocation diplomacy
Editorial in liberal Folha de S. Paulo (4-16) states: "The launch of
a rocket by North Korea, on the fifth, revived regional tensions and
generated the country's [North Korea] condemnation by the U.N.'s
Security Council. Nonetheless, it will probably not change the game
of provocation and restraint that marks the country's relation with
the international community....Despite international progress in the
nuclear program and in the new hostile gesture against the
international community, the miserable North Koreans keeps being
susceptible to negotiations that offer economic help in exchange for
the bomb's renunciation. Global diplomacy should continue to bet
all its cards on this route."
Title- Cuba
Op-ed in liberal Folha de S. Paulo (4-16) by Kenneth Maxwell says:
"Obama is walking on a razor's edge. He chose Dan Restrepo....to
announce the changes [in restrictions to Cuba]. But the announced
measures reflect a real change in the U.S. attitude with
Havana....Fidel Castro wrote that the policy was 'positive but
minimal'. In other words: steps in the right direction."
Title- Route to Teheran
Op-ed in center-right O Estado de S. Paulo (4-16) by sociologist
Demtrio Magnoli notes: "Today Washington needs Teheran to avoid a
disaster in Afghanistan and hinder Iraq's destabilization....But
Iran will not lower its flag in exchange of nothing.....The
reconstruction of a peace process between Israel, the Palestinians
and Syria is a minimum effort that Teheran expects Washington to
make. Obama will fail if he does not confront Israel's new
government, which rejects the commitment to a two state principle
with Palestine..."
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