São Paulo – This Wednesday evening (2nd), the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a communiqué on the situation in Egypt, after president Mohamed Morsi was overthrown by the military. According to the ministry, “Brazil’s federal government is monitoring with great concern the serious situation in Egypt, where constitution has just been suspended and the democratically elected president, overthrown, according to reports from the country’s armed forces.”
In the communiqué, the ministry calls for “the seeking of solutions to the challenges that the Egyptian population will face with regard to institutionality,” and adds that the Brazilian government “champions dialogue and conciliation, so that the fair aspirations of Egyptian people for freedom, democracy and prosperity may be reached without violence, under the full rule of democratic order.”
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
