US and Brazil agree Venezuela “should be looking more to the south”

Thursday, March 4th 2010 - 21:24 UTC

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Hillary Clinton and Brazilian Foreign Secretary Celso Amorim.

The United States and Brazil agreed that Venezuela should be “looking more to the south”, to “successful models of country”, according to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and that is why “we have invited Venezuela to join Mercosur”, pointed out Brazilian Foreign Secretary Celso Amorim.

Hillary Clinton during a press conference this week in Brasilia following meetings with her counterpart Amorim, said the US was deeply concerned about the behaviour of the Venezuelan government which is “limiting, slowly but surely the freedoms within Venezuela” and therefore adversely impacting the Venezuelan people.

“We think this is unproductive with respect to its relations with certain neighbours, which we believe is limiting, slowly but surely, the freedoms within Venezuela, therefore adversely impacting the Venezuelan people.

She added that Washington would hope there could be a new start on the part of the Venezuelan leadership to restore full democracy, freedom of the press, private property and return to a free market economy.

“We wish Venezuela were looking more to its south and looking at Brazil and looking at Chile and other models of a successful country”, underlined Clinton.

Amorim then said he would make a brief comment on Venezuela, and without agreeing with everything that the Madam Secretary said, “I do agree that Venezuela has to look southwards more. And that is why we have invited Venezuela to join Mercosur as a full member country, member state, which I think will be a very positive and favourable development” to ensure Venezuelan relations with South American countries.

At the end of 2009 the Brazilian congress finally approved the incorporation of Venezuela to Mercosur as full member, an initiative sent to the Legislative by President Lula da Silva in March 2007.

The legislative branches of Argentina and Uruguay have already given their consent to Caracas request and the only pending member is Paraguay, where the weak administration of President Fernando Lugo has been unable so far to have the initiative considered by Congress.

In Mercosur all decisions must be approved unanimously by its full members.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is on a Latinamerican tour of six countries: Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Brazil and currently Costa Rica and Guatemala in Central America.

Categories: Politics, Brazil, Mercosur, United States.

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nana
I BELIEVE HILLARY CLINTON INSTEAD PROMOTING WAR,SANCTIONS AND SUFFERING SHE SHOULD PROMOTE PEACE.SHE BELIEVE TOO MUCH IN WIPPING NATIONS.AMERICA FOREIGN POLICY IS PLANTED ON MILITARY ATTACK AND SANCTIONS TO NATIONS THAT THEY CANNOT BULLY THEM. LET THERE BE PEACE Hillay
Mar 04th, 2010 - 11:07 pm 0
Rhaurie-Craughwell
It's of concern to anyone Nancy when Venzeula, with such an unstable leader (who tried to seize power by force once before) is violating human rights in a continent which is trying to shed the past military regimes .

even Ammesty international has expressed brave concern that the Great Baboon has had a tendency to use the forces of the state to disrupt and even supress critisicm of himself.

Don't forget Bolivar's great vision a pan american state concisting of Canada and America and Caribean, The baboon (Chavez) is the great enemy of Democracy in the region, not the US, his rhetroic masks the failure of latin american leaders, all talk, corruption and failure.

Look at Kirchner, she is failing in the polls so she bullies 4,000 islanders in the Falkanders!
The Baboons power infrastructure is failing cause he brought weapons instead of infrastructure.
Mar 05th, 2010 - 01:17 am 0
Tolomeo
Hillarious clinton is so out of touch with reality that she makes no sense. Before Chavez all the Venezuelan oil and trade was with the USA, today Venezuelan oil is traded in many south American and Caribean nations. All this is possible now becasuse we recovered was was stolen from us by US transnationals. The Fugly lady come to South America to aske for support against Iran. The US invades rapes and kill people on a daily basis and are the most hipocrical and criminal nation in the face of the earth! Hillarious...no wonder Bill got blown by monica! with a wife like you who wouldn't!
Mar 06th, 2010 - 03:03 am 0

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