Identifier
Created
Classification
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09SAOPAULO396
2009-07-08 16:07:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Consulate Sao Paulo
Cable title:
MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: HONDURAS, COUP; GLOBAL
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UNCLAS SAO PAULO 000396
SIPDIS
STATE INR/R/MR; IIP/R/MR; WHA/PD
DEPT PASS USTR
USDOC 4322/MAC/OLAC/JAFEE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KMDR OPRC OIIP XM XR XF BR
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: HONDURAS, COUP; GLOBAL
ECONOMY: FINANCIAL MARKET CRISIS; IMF; CLIMATE CHANGE AND
ENVIRONMENT; SAO PAULO
July 7, 2009
Title- Alliance for Change
Op-ed inliberal Folha de S. Paulo (7-7) co-authored by Preidents
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Nicolas Sarkozy states:
"...International financial institutions, like the IMF and the World
Bank, need to gie more weight to the more dynamic emerging
economes during their decisionmaking processes. The decisions
made at the [lat] G20 summit should also be put into practice.....
The threat of protectinism gathered new force with the crisis.
WTO's Dha Round Trade talk conclsion is an urgent task in order to
reach an ambiious, ample and balanced deal that can benefit
developing countries above all.... so that it strengthens commercial
multilateralism....An extensive pocess to change the United Nations
Security Council in order to ensure a more balanced and
comprehensive international order should be discussed.....Other
challenges also threaten peace and development. Climate change
imposes an enormous test on global governance...... Other global
challenges include organized and transnational crime; terrorism;
drug and people trafficking; pandemics and food security....Brazil
and France want to offer to the world its joint view of a new
multilateralism, adapted to a multi-polar world. We cannot deal
with the problems of the 21st century with institutions that are a
legacy of the 20th century. Together with other world leaders we
need to forge an 'Alliance for Change'....."
Title- Obama Government playing dead; Brazil should act
Op-ed in liberal Folha de S. Paulo (7-7) by Folha's columnist Marcos
Nobre notes: "...We don't see Brazil seeking a negotiated solution
for the conflict [in Honduras]. And the reason is simple: Brazil is
not doing anything because it believes that the U.S. recovered its
place as the uncontested leader of the Americas...This may be true
on the whole but not in the case of Honduras. Obama's government
may say that it decided to take a prudent stance and that it sought
to reinforce the OAS's institutional role, but the fact is that it
decided to play dead......By entering directly in the conflict the
U.S. could be accused of abusing its military and economic power
against a small banana republic. If it sticks to its dubious
stance, it may be considered an opportunist that doesn't truly
defend democracy......The tardy and irrelevant OAS strategy of
ultimatums is wasted. A confrontation is imminent. And Obama's
government simply washed its hands [of the situation]. And it is
exactly at this point, with a lack of action by the U.S.
administration, that Brazil should reappear and show why it is
there...."
POPP
SIPDIS
STATE INR/R/MR; IIP/R/MR; WHA/PD
DEPT PASS USTR
USDOC 4322/MAC/OLAC/JAFEE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KMDR OPRC OIIP XM XR XF BR
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: HONDURAS, COUP; GLOBAL
ECONOMY: FINANCIAL MARKET CRISIS; IMF; CLIMATE CHANGE AND
ENVIRONMENT; SAO PAULO
July 7, 2009
Title- Alliance for Change
Op-ed inliberal Folha de S. Paulo (7-7) co-authored by Preidents
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Nicolas Sarkozy states:
"...International financial institutions, like the IMF and the World
Bank, need to gie more weight to the more dynamic emerging
economes during their decisionmaking processes. The decisions
made at the [lat] G20 summit should also be put into practice.....
The threat of protectinism gathered new force with the crisis.
WTO's Dha Round Trade talk conclsion is an urgent task in order to
reach an ambiious, ample and balanced deal that can benefit
developing countries above all.... so that it strengthens commercial
multilateralism....An extensive pocess to change the United Nations
Security Council in order to ensure a more balanced and
comprehensive international order should be discussed.....Other
challenges also threaten peace and development. Climate change
imposes an enormous test on global governance...... Other global
challenges include organized and transnational crime; terrorism;
drug and people trafficking; pandemics and food security....Brazil
and France want to offer to the world its joint view of a new
multilateralism, adapted to a multi-polar world. We cannot deal
with the problems of the 21st century with institutions that are a
legacy of the 20th century. Together with other world leaders we
need to forge an 'Alliance for Change'....."
Title- Obama Government playing dead; Brazil should act
Op-ed in liberal Folha de S. Paulo (7-7) by Folha's columnist Marcos
Nobre notes: "...We don't see Brazil seeking a negotiated solution
for the conflict [in Honduras]. And the reason is simple: Brazil is
not doing anything because it believes that the U.S. recovered its
place as the uncontested leader of the Americas...This may be true
on the whole but not in the case of Honduras. Obama's government
may say that it decided to take a prudent stance and that it sought
to reinforce the OAS's institutional role, but the fact is that it
decided to play dead......By entering directly in the conflict the
U.S. could be accused of abusing its military and economic power
against a small banana republic. If it sticks to its dubious
stance, it may be considered an opportunist that doesn't truly
defend democracy......The tardy and irrelevant OAS strategy of
ultimatums is wasted. A confrontation is imminent. And Obama's
government simply washed its hands [of the situation]. And it is
exactly at this point, with a lack of action by the U.S.
administration, that Brazil should reappear and show why it is
there...."
POPP