S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), Riad Malki, is going to meet this week with the foreign ministers of the IBSA, a group comprising India, Brazil and South Africa, to discuss the peace process in the Middle East.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is in their (the Palestinians\u2019) best interest for the IBSA to have a more substantial participation, for the IBSA to speak out more [on the matter],\u201d said the secretary general for Politics II at the Brazilian foreign office (Itamaraty), Roberto Jaguaribe, in a press conference last week.<\/p>\n
This week, brazil is going to host a series of international meetings that will end with the fourth IBSA summit and the second summit of the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China). The presidents of China, Hu Jintao, Russia, Dmitri Medvedev, and South Africa, Jacob Zuma, and the Indian prime minister, Manmohan Singh, will be in attendance.<\/p>\n
According to Jaguaribe, the meeting of the PNA and the IBSA is going to take place by request of Malki himself, \u201cto whom the IBSA may play a key role in this [peace] process.\u201d In his assessment, this is proof that the group\u00b4s political and diplomatic success is perceived on an international level. \u201c[The IBSA] is a group known for its impartiality and balanced perspectives, which may favour an understanding,\u201d stated the diplomat.<\/p>\n
He added that Palestinians and Israelis alike are frustrated with the \u201cinability to reach an effective result\u201d after decades of conflict. In that respect, Jaguaribe repeated what the Brazilian president Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva said in March, in his latest tour of the Middle East, which included Israel, the West Bank, and Jordan.<\/p>\n
First off, he claimed that the conflict transcends the regional realm, as it affects the entire world in different ways; then he stated that the United Nations (UN) should play the role of chief mediator; and lastly, that \u201cdifferent views\u201d should be discussed in order to make it easier for an understanding to be reached.<\/p>\n
The Brazilian government has been calling for the inclusion of new players in the process, currently in the hands of the so-called \u201cQuartet,\u201d comprising the UN, the United States, Russia, and the European Union. Jaguaribe underscored that the involvement of other countries has led negotiations to move forward in the past, as was the case with Norway, which sponsored the Oslo Accords, in 1993, established by the then-Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin and the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, both now deceased.<\/p>\n
\u201c[The participation of new players] may contribute to make the process easier,\u201d said the ambassador, who added that new players may bring in new ideas and \u201cbreathe new life\u201d into the negotiations.<\/p>\n
Last year, the IBAS Fund, maintained by the three countries, announced a US$ 1 million donation for building a sports complex in Ramallah, in the West Bank.<\/p>\n
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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