Brazil Negotiates Palestine UN Recognition Endorsement within the Group of 77

PNN - Palestine News Network

Ramallah - PNN - Former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is Brazil’s special envoy to negotiate the official recognition of Palestine at UN within the developing and emerging countries of the Group of 77.

Brazil already recognized Palestine as a sovereign an independent state on the border agreement of 1967 by December 2010 leading a South American campaign on the official recognition of the State of Palestine followed by Argentine, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Chile among others.

Now, Lula offers to negotiate with the leaders of the developing countries who have not recognised Palestine statehood yet, in order to get their support for Palestine to become United Nations 194 state-member next September. “The aim of Brazil is to help to create a political event to push Israelis and Palestinians to negotiate directly. The way it is, the conflict tends to drag on," said President Advisor Marco Aurélio García to O Estado newspaper.

Brazil’s decision has been widely celebrated in Ramallah, while Israeli Government is already planning an official visit to the South American country to hold Brazil’s activism.

Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff will give a speech at the UN General Assembly annual session when the Palestine issue comes to the fore. She will be the first to climb the podium in New York, according to the tradition which, since 1947, reserves Brazil for the opening speeches of heads of state, ministers and other national authorities in the plenary.