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Lula Demands New World
Economic Order
SAN SALVADOR -
Brazil's president Luiz
Inácio Lula da Silva,
blamed the First World
for the financial crisis
and demanded the voice
of poor countries be
heard when a new world
economic order is
designed.
Poor nations “are
victims and not guilty”
for the crisis, he
stressed in his speech
before the 18th
Iberoamerican Summit
being held today in this
capital.
The statesman referred
to the need to adopt
mechanisms and controls
that prevent new crisis
from happening while
speculation intensifies
affecting the real
economy.
“Youth is very important
at this moment humankind
is living,” he sustained
when referring to the
younger segment to which
the forum is dedicated
this year.
Lula explained the
collapse of global
markets will not be
fcontained without an
effort of international
coordination and “that
effort will be unjust if
developing countries are
not taken into account.”
Lula also called to
reject “a process that
excludes us, at just the
moment when emerging
countries are seen as a
hope” and asked to
counter the crisis with
more integration, more
fair trade and less
subsidies.
He also insisted on the
need to “recover the
role of the State,
marginalized by the
thesis of the Washington
Consensus.”
Lula pointed that we
live a “moment of
political decisions”
that allow to redefine
the role of the State to
renew the support to the
productive sectors and
increase investments on
education and
professional training.
In another moment of his
speech, Lula criticized
the migratory measures
taken by the European
Union and said it is
urgent that the
community acts in a
coordinated manner due
to the strong impact on
youth.
“Brazil sees with worry
the Return Directive
approved recently”. You
cannot make an eulogy of
free capital movement
and ban that of
persons,” said the
Brazilian president. |
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