Tag: Celso Amorim

Thursday, September 1st 2011 - 02:30 UTC
Argentina, with Brazilian support proposes a South American Space agency

Argentina proposed this week in Brazil the creation of a South American Space Agency, an initiative which was supported by host Brazil during a Defence seminar in Sao Paulo.
Tuesday, August 9th 2011 - 12:58 UTC
Brazil Defence minister wants the South Atlantic as a peace zone shared with Africa

Brazil’s new Defence minister Celso Amorim said he plans closer links with Unasur (Union of South American Nations) and Africa to ensure the South Atlantic turns into a peace zone free of weapons of mass destruction.
Monday, August 8th 2011 - 04:54 UTC
Brazilian military warn incoming Defence minister forces are ‘non political, non partisan’

A Brazilian retired general and former commander of UN forces in Haiti warned the new Defence minister Celso Amorim to avoid giving the Armed Forces command a ‘left-wing ideological imprint’.
Friday, August 5th 2011 - 19:55 UTC
Lula da Silva comes out in strong support Celso Amorim as defence minister

Brazilian former president Lula da Silva came out in full support of the latest cabinet reshuffle by President Dilma Rousseff who sacked the Minister of Defence Nelson Jobim following some derogatory remarks about the cabinet chief and the head of institutional relations (mainly with Congress).
Friday, August 5th 2011 - 07:54 UTC
Celso Amorim Brazil’s new Defence minister; Jobim out on derogatory remarks

Brazilian Defence Minister Nelson Jobim resigned after criticizing recent government names to reporters and will be replaced by ex-foreign minister Celso Amorim, the president's office said Thursday.
Tuesday, May 17th 2011 - 15:42 UTC
Brazil insists with an emerging economy Managing Director for the IMF

Brazil’s former Foreign Affairs minister Celso Amorim said that the next IMF Managing Director must come from an emerging economy if Dominique Strauss-Kahn, currently in custody in New York on alleged rape charges finally looses his job.
Monday, March 28th 2011 - 01:15 UTC
Rousseff and Lula da Silva together in Portugal ‘day-after’ Iran vote

Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff and her predecessor Lula da Silva will be meeting this week for an international event in Portugal, just a few days after the new government abandoned a pro-dialogue with Iran position for a more neutral stance.
Saturday, March 26th 2011 - 08:20 UTC
Brazil’s UN vote on Iran marks first great difference between Dilma and Lula da Silva

Brazil’s vote in the UN Human Rights Council in support of a rapporteur to monitor human rights in Iran, proposed by the US, signals the first great divergence in foreign policy between the current administration of President Dilma Rousseff and her predecessor and mentor Lula da Silva.
Thursday, March 10th 2011 - 06:51 UTC
A Brazilian view of the current situation in Arab countries

During Brazil's two decades of military dictatorship, it would have been unthinkable that a female former revolutionary would lead the country in the 21st century. That transition, from autocracy to democracy, might offer some lessons for rebels across the Arab world, Brazil’s longest serving foreign minister told a forum organised by the Al Jazeera Centre for Studies in Doha, Qatar.
Friday, February 18th 2011 - 04:43 UTC
Paraguay fearful of “Brazilian dominance” reveals Wikileaks cable

Paraguay expressed deep concern about “Brazilian dominance” in South America, reveals a diplomatic cable exposed by Wikileaks and reproduced this week by the Brazilian portal ‘Opera Mundi’.