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| Brazil opposes calls to impose more sanctions on Iran |
| 2010-02-11 |
| Brazil has warned against imposing a new round of UN sanctions on Iran, saying that the dispute over Iran's nuclear program should be resolved through peaceful means. "We don't want Iran to have nuclear arms, let there be no doubt about that." "We just don't want any precedents set," he murmured. "They, like other countries, have the right to a peaceful (nuclear power) program," Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim told reporters in Brasilia on Tuesday. "We want to reach certainty (on Iran's program) through dialogue and peaceful means," Reuters quoted Amorim as saying. The Brazilian foreign minister also said that sanctions tend to mostly cause suffering for the residents of the nations targeted rather than their governments. "In the case of Iraq, I saw much suffering of the Iraqi people. Infant mortality went up enormously, and I saw that (sanctions) had no real impact on Saddam Hussein," he stated. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 And we can see, yet again, the thrilling victory of soft power. How's that new diplomacy working out for you Zero? How European this all is. Remember those thrilling days of yesteryear when the EUnuchs were going to talk Hussein into retirement? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2010-02-11 07:23 |
| #1 He has a point, sanctions only work against a democracy such as South Africa that cares about world opinion and their own population (well to some extent at least). A dictatorship will just use the sanctions as an excuse to keep themselves in power and build palaces or whatever. The real answer is to allow for political assassinations. Take out the leadership and leave the population alone. IN a war of assassinations a democracy has a huge advantage in that we tend to have orderly changes of power. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2010-02-11 00:09 |