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By Francesca Regalado
\n<\/a><\/strong>Managing Editor<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

Brazil\u2019s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Antonio de Aguiar Patriota visited Seton Hall University on April 13. Ambassador Patriota delivered a lecture on \u201cBrazil in a Changing Global Environment\u201d to a roomful of professors and students. Before his lecture, the ambassador enjoyed lunch with the faculty and administration of the School of Diplomacy, where he also met a few Brazilian students.<\/p>\n

Brazil\u2019s ambitions to pursue United Nations reform and an expansion of the Security Council was a popular topic during the lecture and a prior interview with the Seton Hall press corps. Ambassador Patriota reiterated Brazil\u2019s support for the U.N. Charter and international law, but added, \u201cBrazil is looking to change the status quo only in governance mechanisms because we feel that while in certain areas such as financial and economic coordination, the G7 has been replaced by the G20 that is more representative and in tune with today\u2019s multipolarity, at the UN, there have been other instances where the organization has evolved but the SC remains very much a reflection of what a majority of observers would consider an outdated distribution of geopolitical power. It still reflects through the [Permanent Five] the geopolitics of 1945.\u201d<\/p>\n

Frustration with the Security Council is felt not only by governments but also by civil society, the ambassador noted, particularly \u201cwith the inability of the SC to deliver on a number of fronts \u2013 Syria where more than 200,000 people have died, areas where tension could have been avoided such as Ukraine \u2013 in addition to long-standing unresolved questions such as Israel and Palestine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Security Council reform has been a top priority of Brazilian foreign policy since initiated by former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. According to Ambassador Patriota, the policy has not changed, as the Workers\u2019 Party has been in power since Lula\u2019s first term in 2003. Ambassador Patriota warned, \u201cIf the Security Council goes on for much longer with its present composition and a handful of countries continue to try to prevent reform, the serious risk is that there will be an erosion of respect for multilateralism and we will fall into rival hegemonic agendas, which is what more or less happened before World War I.\u201d<\/p>\n

As \u201cstrong believers in diplomacy,\u201d Ambassador Patriota describes Brazilians as \u201cvery suspicious and mistrusting of resorting to force to solve tensions because very often military force makes matters worse.\u201d This characterizes Brazil\u2019s policy of reaching out to states that have been treated as pariahs by the international community. The ambassador discussed Brazil and Turkey\u2019s initiation of a dialogue with Iran regarding the latter\u2019s nuclear program in 2010, saying that the effort \u201ccould have been a confidence-building measure but what ultimately became a missed opportunity.\u201d The delay has allowed Iran to develop more centrifuges and to further enrich uranium.<\/p>\n

Regarding another international pariah, Ambassador Patriota praised the reopening of relations between Cuba and the United States: \u201cPresident Obama has decided to overturn an anachronistic attitude towards Cuba,\u201d a policy that does not reflect today\u2019s world. The ambassador pointed out that the U.S. has long had relations with Vietnam and other countries that have governments similar to Cuba\u2019s.<\/p>\n

At the recent Summit of the Americas where the historic meeting between President Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro took place, Mr. Obama also had a bilateral meeting with President Dilma Rousseff, during which a visit to Washington by the Brazilian President was scheduled for June 30.<\/p>\n

Ambassador Patriota hinted that the United States was influenced by its isolation in the 2012 Summit: \u201cMany countries had declared that they would not attend another summit unless Cuba was present.\u201d He added, \u201cLifting the isolation of Cuba allows better coordination in regional affairs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brazil\u2019s position as an outspoken advocate for multilateralism is most evident in its contribution to U.N. peacekeeping operations. Ambassador Patriota mentioned Lieutenant General Carlos Alberto dos Santos Cruz of Brazil, who leads the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO). Brazil\u2019s weighty contribution to peacekeeping operations \u2013 greater than that of Russia, a Permanent Member\u2013 supports the Latin American leader\u2019s Security Council ambitions. To ignore the new distribution of geopolitical power would be, as Ambassador Patriota says, \u201ctaxation without representation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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