Tag: Celso Amorim

• 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’.

• Monday, February 7th 2011 - 18:07 UTC

  US condemns South American/Arab leaders summits, say Wikileaks cables

  

  Brazilian policy towards Middle East and the Arab world harm US strategy in the region according to US embassy diplomatic cables between 2004 and 2009, recently exposed by Wikleaks.

• Friday, December 17th 2010 - 07:17 UTC

  Mercosur after closer trade relations with Cuba, Palestine, Syria and NZ

  

  Member nations of Mercosur will seek to boost economic and political ties with Cuba in a bid to make the island an associate member of the trade bloc.

• Tuesday, December 14th 2010 - 17:46 UTC

  Brazil has become “unavoidable partner” in the global decision-making process

  

  Brazil has the necessary conditions, and authority, to actively participate in the current international transformations as the world moves away from the “traditional governance mechanisms”, and for which Brazil, India and South Africa have become “unavoidable partners” in the decision making process.

• Tuesday, November 23rd 2010 - 22:59 UTC

  The challenge of “breaking mental barriers” to promote Mercosur and Unasur

  

  Brazil’s influential Foreign Affairs minister Celso Amorim revealed that his major obstacle in his eight years in the post was “breaking mental barriers” particularly in advancing relations among countries in the South and promoting such organizations as Mercosur and Unasur.

• Monday, October 18th 2010 - 00:03 UTC

  Timmerman and Amorim report to the Mercosur parliament in Montevideo

  

  Argentina and Brazil’s Foreign Affairs ministers, Hector Timerman and Celso Amorim are expected Monday in Montevideo to report to the Mercosur parliament on the current situation of the regional block and future steps.

• Tuesday, September 14th 2010 - 23:03 UTC

  EU anticipates a trade agreement with Mercosur by next July 2011

  

  EU trade chief Karel De Gucht said on Tuesday in Brazil that a EU-Mercosur trade pact could happen “in less than a year”, despite France's “firm” opposition to a deal with the South American block.

• Saturday, September 11th 2010 - 17:43 UTC

  Mercosur and Unasur “more effective” for South America than OAS

  

  Mercosur and Unasur (Union of South American Nations) can be “more effective” than OAS (Organization of American States) in addressing issues of South American countries, said Brazilian Foreign Secretary Celso Amorim currently in Switzerland for a conference on international security.

• Wednesday, September 1st 2010 - 02:48 UTC

  Lifting Mercosur out of its “institutional paralysis”, Rousseff’s main challenge

  

  Consolidating South American integration would be the main foreign policy priority of the Brazilian ruling party presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff if public opinion polls are confirmed at the ballot box next October 3 and she emerges as the successor of Lula da Silva.