2009-12-02 08:47:54
RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva reaffirmed on Tuesday that he will not agree to have any conversations with Honduras' president-elect Porfirio Lobo and that his country will not recognize the new government.
The Brazilian president made the statement in Portugal where he was participating in the 19th Ibero-American Summit.
President Lula said that legitimating the elections in Honduras would threaten the democracy in Central and Latin America.
On Monday, the Honduran president-elect said he wished to discuss his country's political situation with President Lula, who was firm in his position that Brazil will not make any concession to the Honduran regime that deposed elected President Manuel Zelaya in June ...
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