The Minister of Health, Alexandre Padilhahe said on Thursday (4) that he has not yet decided to participate in the UN General Assembly (United Nations).
Despite being overdue document since last year, in August this year, the Minister of Health, his wife and daughter were targeted by sanctions. The reason was the minister’s participation in the Mais Médicos program, pointed out by the White House as “an export scheme of the Cuban regime.”
Still in August, Padilha told the CNN that Itamaraty asked the United States a new visa for him. The request, however, has not yet been answered.
“We are following the processing. I have not decided if I go to the UN General Assembly. There is an agreement that requires a country that hosts a federal body like this to allow access from all invited authorities,” the minister said in an interview at the USP School of Medicine in Sao Paulo.
Despite the diplomatic impasse, the minister claims that the reason for the indecision is the vote of a Government project in Congress. “I am invited to be in, I have not decided yet because I’m following the processing in the National Congress of the voting of our now experts. So I have no decision on it,” he said.
The opening will take place on September 9, in New York.
