Colombia has rejected Venezuela’s peace plan to end the dispute over allegations that Venezuela is sheltering leftist guerrillas. “A true peace plan begins with not interfering in the internal affairs of any country,” Colombia’s Foreign Minister Jaime Bermudez said on Wednesday, the VHeadline website reported on Wednesday. “But, moreover, a true peace plan begins with [...]

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has pledged nearly $14 million to help in the reconstruction of Palestinian territories. The donation came in response to a United Nations request for international assistance for the region. Lula has signed a bill allocating the funds for the Gaza Strip, AP reported. The Brazilian president signed the [...]

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced on Friday that he would be cutting his African tour short and returning to Brazil ahead of schedule. In South Africa, which was the last stop of his six-nation African tour, Lula met South African President Jacob Zuma and attended the South Africa/Brazil Business Forum on July [...]

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has arrived in Lusaka and was welcomed by Zambian President Rupiah Banda at the airport. On Thursday, President Lula will hold private talks with President Banda at State House before being honored with a medal at an investiture ceremony. Lula’s Tuesday visit to Nairobi added fresh impetus to [...]

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has expressed frustration with the UN Security Council, criticizing its “contradictory” actions against Iran. In an interview with Syrian News Agency (SANA), the Latin American leader described as “puzzling” the UNSC decision to impose fresh sanctions against Iran. He stressed that the move “contradicts logic” as it challenges [...]

More than 150,000 people have been rendered homeless in northern Brazil in the wake of three days of heavy rains that brought the country face to face with crisis. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Friday that in order to address the emergency in the country, he will cancel a trip to [...]

Nicaragua has suspended its diplomatic ties with Israel in protest at Tel Aviv’s deadly attack against an aid convoy heading for the besieged Gaze Strip. “Nicaragua suspends from today its diplomatic relations with the government of Israel,” President Daniel Ortega’s office said in a statement on Tuesday. The Managua government “underscored the illegal nature of [...]

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has defended his country’s stance on the Tehran nuclear declaration and stated that he believes nuclear arsenals are “obsolete.” In his opening speech at the UN Alliance of Civilizations Forum in Rio de Janeiro on Friday, Lula argued for Iran’s right to have a civilian nuclear program. “The [...]

Brazil and Turkey have urged world powers to support the Tehran declaration, instead of talking about new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan met in Brasilia on Thursday and urged Western powers against neglecting the Tehran declaration that was signed [...]

Turkey and Brazil hail Iran’s letter to the International Atomic Energy Agency as a positive step that can help resolve the standoff over Tehran’s nuclear program. Turkey described the letter as a “significant step” and urged world powers on Monday to help resolve the nuclear standoff through diplomacy and the signing of a nuclear fuel [...]

Arab League (AL) Secretary General Amr Moussa has praised Iran’s nuclear declaration as a positive step towards dispelling Western fears over its nuclear program. Iran announced a nuclear declaration on Monday following trilateral talks with non-permanent UN Security Council members Turkey and Brazil — under which Iran agrees to swap its low-enriched uranium for reactor [...]

Brazil’s president seeks to fulfill his pledge to examine all diplomatic options in ending the standoff over Iran’s civilian nuclear program. In a newspaper interview published on Sunday, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva stressed that he was not losing heart in ending the nuclear standoff. “I want to exhaust every possibility up until [...]

The Brazilian president has repeated his call for a diplomatic solution to the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program, saying that new Iran sanctions would not be helpful in any way. On Wednesday, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said that he would also keep working to persuade permanent members of the United Nations Security [...]

Brazil, India and South Africa have called for a diplomatic solution to Iran’s nuclear issue, adding that the country’s nuclear rights should be respected. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and South African President Jacob Zuma in a trilateral summit in Brasilia on Thursday “recognized the right of Iran [...]

Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim says his country feels “great affinity” towards China in its dealings with Iran’s nuclear issue. Amorim said on Thursday that Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had outlined Brazil’s defense of Iran to Chinese President Hu Jintao during a summit of so-called BRIC nations of emerging economies in Brasilia, [...]

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Wednesday his country is prepared to talk with the Islamic Hamas movement. Speaking at a press conference with the Ex-Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas after talks at his Ramallah headquarters, Lula responded to a question by saying that Hamas must be part of any solution to resolve [...]

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has warned that imposing new sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program would be a very dangerous step. Sanctions could isolate Iran so much that tensions would spiral out of control, Lula told AP in an interview on Tuesday. He suggested that new Iran sanctions might even lead [...]

Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a meeting with the American Secretary of State said his country would continue its relations with Tehran. The President also stressed that he was seeking a peaceful solution for Iran’s nuclear issue. And Brazilian Foreign Minister, Celso Amorim after a meeting with Clinton in a news conference [...]

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Wednesday that the international community should not “push Iran into a corner over its nuclear energy program.” “It is not wise to push Iran into a corner. It is wise to establish negotiations,” the Brazilian president said before a meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton [...]

As the US seeks the broadest possible support for tougher Iran sanctions, the Obama administration is pushing Brazil to join Washington’s fray against Iran. Brazil’s current position as a voter on the UN Security Council has prompted up-coming visits from the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and another diplomat, William Burns, to Brasilia, seeking [...]