Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Portugal .- Dilma: "Brazil will help to Portugal and Portugal helped Brazil"

LISBON, 29 Mar. The president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, said this Tuesday its willingness to "help" in economic matters Portugal at a time when the country is closer to rescue their European partners and with a call early elections in sight following the resignation of Prime Minister Jose Socrates. Rousseff was asked by reporters upon his arrival in Coimbra on whether Brazil will help Portugal to overcome the crisis of sovereign debt.

"Brazil will help Portugal to Brazil and Portugal helped economically," he noted. In this line, said former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva after receiving the 2010 North-South Prize from the President of the Republic, Anibal Cavaco Silva, in an event held in the Assembly.

Lula da Silva said that "Brazil will be in solidarity with Portugal" in resolving the economic crisis. "I think we have to work to not allow a country that was as good as Portugal suddenly go into a situation of crisis and unemployment," he pointed Lula, who took the opportunity to assess the management of the crisis in Europe: "The economic bloc strongest in Europe took more time to help and allowed the speculation to come to other countries.

" Last night, former President of Brazil, in an informal dinner in Lisbon with the prime minister, Jose Socrates, said the International Monetary Fund (IMF) "will not solve the problems of Portugal, and Brazil did not resolve." "Every time the IMF tried to take care of the debts of the countries, the IMF created more problems than solutions in those countries," he added.

The former Brazilian president will be sworn 'Honoris Causa' by the University of Coimbra, ceremony to be attended by the president of Brazil, on Tuesday has come to Portugal as part of his first official visit to a European country to agree to office in January 2011. In the afternoon, Dilma Rousseff will travel to Lisbon for a meeting with President of the Republic, Anibal Cavaco Silva at Belem Palace, after which make statements to the press and will subsequently be received at the Palacio de Sao Bento Acting Prime Minister Jose Socrates.

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