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Tue, 10/28/2008 - 13:02
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Brazil supports UAE on 3 Islands issue with Iran, calls for Israeli withdrawal to Green Line
Abu Dhabi, Oct 28, 2008 (WAM) - Brazil and members of UNASUR (Union of South American Nations) support the position of the UAE on the issue of the three Islands - Abu Musa, Greater Tunb and Lesser Tunb - occupied by Iran since the year 1971, a senior official at the Brazilian Foreign Ministry told Spanish News Agency (EFE) in an exclusive interview.
"Brazil favours a peaceful solution to the issue through diplomacy and negotiations between the two countries or for that matter by referring the dispute to the International Court of Justice,'' added Extra-ordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador at the Brazilian Foreign Ministry Arnaldo Carvallho who was on a short visit to Abu Dhabi.
"We are, at the same time, interested in seeing very good relations between the two countries and urge them to reach a just and peaceful solution to the issue of the three Islands through diplomacy and negotiations." Upon British forces withdrawal from the Gulf, Iran and UAE signed a MoU which the UAE says does not give Iran the right to sovereignty over the Islands which are close to the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
Speaking on the Middle East peace process, the knowledgeable expert on Middle East -who started his diplomatic career in 1965 in Algeria and later in Israel- urged Israel to withdraw from the occupied Palestinian Territories (oPT) back to the Green Line (the 1949 armistice line between Israel which demarcated the borders between Israel and the West Bank and Gaza Strip as recognized by the international community in 1948).
Calling for the exact implementation of UN Security Council resolutions 242 and 338 which call for Israel's withdrawal from territories as part of a peace agreement, the Brazilian senior official said Brazil recognizes the right of Palestinians to establish their own independent state on their lands.
Carvallho arrived earlier in Abu Dhabi coming from Doha shortly after representing Brazil in the 3-day 5th Meeting of High Officials of Arab and South American Countries (ASPA) which started last Monday, October 20th.
Some 34 delegates of 12 South American countries, UNASUR (Union de Naciones Suramericanas), 22 Arab countries and the Arab League engaged in discussions of the upcoming ASPA Summit of heads of States due to be held in Doha on April 1st next year.
Present at the meeting were Brazilian Ambassador to UAE Raol Castro and president of the Trade Exterior Chamber of Brazil- Arabian Gulf and North Africa (Golfobras) Ahmed Yassine.
The ASPA series of meetings, said Carvallho, inaugurated a new kind of dialogue and relations between Arabs and South Americans.
"Brazil favours a peaceful solution to the issue through diplomacy and negotiations between the two countries or for that matter by referring the dispute to the International Court of Justice,'' added Extra-ordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador at the Brazilian Foreign Ministry Arnaldo Carvallho who was on a short visit to Abu Dhabi.
"We are, at the same time, interested in seeing very good relations between the two countries and urge them to reach a just and peaceful solution to the issue of the three Islands through diplomacy and negotiations." Upon British forces withdrawal from the Gulf, Iran and UAE signed a MoU which the UAE says does not give Iran the right to sovereignty over the Islands which are close to the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
Speaking on the Middle East peace process, the knowledgeable expert on Middle East -who started his diplomatic career in 1965 in Algeria and later in Israel- urged Israel to withdraw from the occupied Palestinian Territories (oPT) back to the Green Line (the 1949 armistice line between Israel which demarcated the borders between Israel and the West Bank and Gaza Strip as recognized by the international community in 1948).
Calling for the exact implementation of UN Security Council resolutions 242 and 338 which call for Israel's withdrawal from territories as part of a peace agreement, the Brazilian senior official said Brazil recognizes the right of Palestinians to establish their own independent state on their lands.
Carvallho arrived earlier in Abu Dhabi coming from Doha shortly after representing Brazil in the 3-day 5th Meeting of High Officials of Arab and South American Countries (ASPA) which started last Monday, October 20th.
Some 34 delegates of 12 South American countries, UNASUR (Union de Naciones Suramericanas), 22 Arab countries and the Arab League engaged in discussions of the upcoming ASPA Summit of heads of States due to be held in Doha on April 1st next year.
Present at the meeting were Brazilian Ambassador to UAE Raol Castro and president of the Trade Exterior Chamber of Brazil- Arabian Gulf and North Africa (Golfobras) Ahmed Yassine.
The ASPA series of meetings, said Carvallho, inaugurated a new kind of dialogue and relations between Arabs and South Americans.
