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February 9, 2010

Source: Reuters

*  Brazil wants more dialogue on Iran nuclear program

*  Says people, not government suffer from sanctions

BRASILIA – Brazil cautioned on Tuesday against a new round of U.N. sanctions in response to Iran’s expanded nuclear program and urged Western powers to step up dialogue instead.

“We don’t want Iran to have nuclear arms, let there be no doubt about that. They, like other countries, have the right to a peaceful (nuclear power) program,” Foreign Minister Celso Amorim told reporters in the capital Brasilia.

“We want to reach certainty (on Iran’s program) through dialogue and peaceful means,” Amorim said.

U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that a new push for international sanctions against Tehran was moving along fairly quickly and should be completed in the next few weeks.

Calls for a fourth set of United Nations sanctions against Iran surfaced after its government announced on Sunday that it would start producing 20 percent enriched uranium for a reactor making isotopes for cancer patients.

On Tuesday it announced the work had begun.

Iran says its nuclear program has peaceful purposes, but Western countries suspect the Middle Eastern nation wants the fuel to produce nuclear weapons.

Brazil has lobbied for a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council and hosted Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last November. The emerging Latin American power has said that isolating Iran could be counter-productive.

Asked on Tuesday about growing international pressure for sanctions against Iran, Amorim said sanctions tended to cause mostly suffering for the residents of the nations targeted rather than their governments.

“In the case of Iraq, I saw much suffering of the Iraqi people. Infant mortality went up enormously and I saw that (sanctions) had no real impact on Saddam Hussein,” Amorim said. (Reporting by Carolina Marcello; Writing by Raymond Colitt; Editing by Paul Simao)