Sérgio Moro: Taken as a whole, Brazil has always been an ally of Western democracies; a country that, while allied to Western democracies, has always maintained important ties with countries in other regions of the world, including important commercial ties with China.
Sérgio Moro: But President Lula’s new diplomacy is not one of neutrality; the new presidential diplomacy of President Lula is one of distancing Brazil from Western democracies and of an artificial and partisan antagonism toward the United States.
We know that the PT and Lula have always been guided by anti‑American policy, as if the United States were the great villain of the century, and that they have this great fondness for dictatorships, such as the Cuban one...
Sérgio Moro: (A bell rings.) ... but President Lula’s diplomacy does not give him the right to drag Brazil away from our liberal, democratic traditions and from those convergent with other Western democracies.
Sérgio Moro: Were I irrational, I would vote against the nomination of all the ambassadors, but here I make the distinction, which is a necessary distinction, between the qualified corps of the Itamaraty and the tragedy that the current Government’s presidential diplomacy represents.