Itamaraty reported that the measure was made in accordance with the principle of reciprocity, after the USA requested that delegate Marcelo Ivo de Carvalho leave the North American country
The president Lula praised the director general of the Federal Police, Andrei Rodrigues, about the decision to withdraw the work credentials of a United States government employee and said that he hopes that the North American country will return to talks with Brazil so that the relationship “returns to normal”.
The president’s speech was declared in a video on social media, this Wednesday (22), in which Lula appears alongside Andrei Rodrigues. “Congratulations on your position to the American delegate, focusing on reciprocity, that is, what they did to us, we will do to them. Hoping that they are willing to vote and talk and things return to normal,” said the president.
about the United States’ decision to suspend the access of Brazilian delegate Marcelo Ivo de Carvalho, involved in the detention of former federal deputy Alexandre Ramagem, which led to a direct response from Brazil, which removed the credentials of a United States immigration officer from the corporation’s system. The measure, according to him, was in accordance with the principle of reciprocity.
According to the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Brazilian decision was based on a principle of ‘reciprocity’, stating that the North Americans’ decision, unlike Brazil’s, was not “preceded by any request for clarification or attempt at dialogue about the case, as provided for in paragraph 7.3 of the bilateral memorandum of understanding that regulates this type of police cooperation”.
The body also argues that the United States’ measure “does not observe the good diplomatic practice of dialogue between friendly nations, such as Brazil and the United States, over more than 200 years of relationship.”
Brazil’s decision to of the United States immigration system of the corporation, causes the “immediate interruption of the exercise of official functions by the North American representative of a similar area in Brazilian territory”.
The terms of application of reciprocity were also verbally transmitted to the embassy representative and involve the immediate interruption of the exercise of official functions by the North American representative of a similar area in Brazilian territory”.
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