Resolution of the National Political Commission

Communist Party of Brazil

April 27, 2010

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PCdoB’s National Political Commission Resolution on the current Brazilian foreign policy and the summit of BRIC and IBAS chiefs of State and Government

Having met on Friday in São Paulo, PCdoB’s National Political Commission issued a resolution exposing the party’s opinion regarding the Brazilian foreign policy and the BRIC and IBAS summit meeting. According to the document, “a transition is taking place with political and economic changes that will sharpen the current crisis of capitalism. That transition will imply changes in the correlation of forces in global scale.”

The fact that the summit meetings of chiefs of State and Government of the BRIC and IBAS groups took place in Brazil is an event of extraordinary relevance. Brasília, which celebrates its 50th anniversary next week, hosted the first joint meeting of those forums, the 2nd BRIC summit (Brazil, Russia, India and China) and the 4th IBAS summit (India, Brazil, and South Africa). Together, the BRIC and IBAS countries represent almost half of humankind, more than a fourth of the world’s territory and more than 15% of the world’s GDP.

Concluding successfully, those meetings make clear the intensification of the “trends towards multi-polarization and the instability of the international system,” as predicted by PCdoB’s Socialist Program. A transition is taking place with political and economic changes that will sharpen with the current crisis of capitalism. That transition will imply changes in the correlation of forces on a global scale.

In addition to joint statements, many bilateral and multilateral agreements of cooperation in several areas of common interest were signed with very relevant practical and strategic consequences. To mention a few of those areas, we may list the common struggle to reform and democratize the United Nations and broaden its Security Council, as requested by the BRICs in its first summit; the joint action in the G20 group in order to regulate financial capitals and modify organizations such as the IMF, in which the BRIC economies invested US$ 100 billion, and the World Bank; actions to create a new international monetary system, trade and investment agreements and financing to infrastructure works; common efforts for sustainable development and to face the environmental, energy and food crises; and cooperation in areas such as science, technology and defense.

The current world order and its institutions have become even more outdated when acute phenomena burst – first in the USA – in the present crisis of capitalism. As president Lula has said in an article on the summit meeting, it is necessary to overcome the unilateralism that exploits the inequalities of nations that, according to him, “have led to standstills, or worse, to human catastrophes, such as in the case of Iraq.” It is imbued with that spirit that Brazil defended multilateral talks and the right that Iran and any other country has to develop nuclear technology for pacific aims.

Much to the contrary of what is frenetically and despairingly divulged by the Brazilian right and its media apparatus, which turns our foreign policy into one of the main issues of the political debate in the electoral dispute, the magnitude of such meetings in our country crowns with even greater success the sovereign, independent forward and sympathetic character of president Lula’s foreign policy. Add to that another victory of our diplomats: the creation of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), an objective listed in our Constitution since 1988, which was born in February this year. Those are all coherent and systematic actions, as in the case of Haiti, to which the IBAS Fund will destine US$ 2 billion to be invested in rebuilding the country.

One cannot dispute any longer the strategic role played by Brazil today in Latin America and the world. This growing influence operates towards a new political and economic adjustment in the world and takes objective steps towards resisting US imperialism and its policy of war, domination and oppression in global scale.

The international situation and foreign policy are issues that stand out in the clash of political projects that are currently effective in Brazil in this stage preceding the electoral campaign. There is a huge gap between those who support Dilma Rousseff, with a new national development project and the current foreign policy characterized by solidarity and sovereignty, and those who defend the return of the past, renouncing our sovereignty and submitting to the interests of American imperialism and its policy of maintaining the present outdated world order.

With a firm belief that popular awareness and mobilization will increase, that the people will unite to fight for a new national project, PCdoB, according to its Program, will not spare efforts to turn Brazil into “a free nation, fully sovereign, strong and influent, fair and generous to its sons and daughters, expressing solidarity to the peoples of the world.”

São Paulo, April 16, 2010

PCdoB’s National Political Commission

Maria Helena D' Eugenio

p/ Secretaria de Relações Internacionais

do CC do PCdoB

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