Health Minister Alexandre Padilha will not integrate the entourage of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT) at the UN summit in New York, which begins this weekend.
The decision was made after the United States granted diplomatic visa with, classified as “unacceptable” by the Brazilian government. The information was revealed by UOL.
Padilha had requested a new visa to attend the UN General Assembly and, following the Pan American Health Organization (PAH) meeting in Washington.
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The document was released only on Thursday (18), but with limitations that would prevent its presence in commitments outside the UN headquarters and the OPAs itself, where Brazil planned to announce additional resources to the rotating fund of vaccines and cancer medicines.
“These restrictions are not made to me as a person, but to the position of Brazilian Health Minister,” he said in an interview in GloboNews. “In practice, it prevents me from participating in two central agendas: the PAHO meeting in Washington and the parallel meetings of the UN Assembly, where the BRICS Partnership in Health presides.”
Diplomats heard by the site stated that, within Itamaraty, the assessment that accepting the visa of humiliation ”prevailed in the face of the tradition established since 1948, when the US were committed to ensuring free access from foreign delegations to international meetings held on its territory.
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The, which had determined the revocation of the Padilha visa and his family members on charges of involvement in the Mais Médicos program, which brought Cuban professionals to Brazil.
In the plateau, the reading is that on time. The tendency is for Padilha to remain in Brazil, while Lula and other ministers, such as Fernando Haddad (farm) and Ricardo Lewandowski (Justice), participate in the summit.
