St. Paul – Brazilian The Health Secretary said Friday that he will not attend the UN General Assembly in New York next week because the U.S. government gave him an “unacceptable visa” and had travel restrictions across the country.
Alexandre Padilha, one of the closest aides with President Luis Inasio Lula da Silvasaid in a statement that he will stay Brazil Due to “unfounded and arbitrary restrictions Brazilian Diplomacy practice” US Government.
Both countries have been in conflict since President Donald Trump imposed a 50% Brazilian export tax on the former president’s trial Jair Bolsonarowas sentenced to 27 years in prison by the country’s Supreme Court for leading a coup attempt.
Earlier, two Brazilian government officials told the Associated Press that the Lula administration protested to the United Nations after Padirja obtained a delayed U.S. visa, which restricted his mobility in New York to UN headquarters and several blocks near his hotel.
Brazilian The administration also said in a letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres, the Trump administration may deny revoking or restricting visas to other officials expected to attend the conference.
Brazilian sources spoke on anonymous condition because they lacked authorization to discuss the matter publicly.
Brazil Propose this move US Government Violation of Article 105 of the United Nations Charter and the Convention on Ensuring Privileges and Immunities for Immigration and Action by Government Officials.
The Lula government also said in a letter to Guterres that UN resolution 43/48 stated that the host state has a legal obligation to ensure unlimited access to each delegation, regardless of its political affiliation.
Nor US Government Answered the AP’s request for comment.
Padilha was originally scheduled to go to Washington for other meetings. His U.S. visa expires in August. In June, his wife and 10-year-old daughter were revoked after Trump decided to impose visa restrictions on Cuban and foreign government officials involved in Cuba’s medical mission.
Brazil During Dilma Rousseff (2011-2016), there was a plan to hire thousands of Cuban doctors, who also served as Padilha as health minister.
Padilha says Brazilian “International activities will continue.”
“They may stop the minister from being present, but the scientific defense, the vaccine (will continue to move forward),” the Brazilian health minister said. “This U.S. president will not be able to stop it.”
On Sunday, Lula In the New York Times, his administration is willing to negotiate anything that can bring mutual benefits, but addsBrazilian Democracy and sovereignty are not on the dining table. ”
Lula He said he was proud of the Supreme Court’s “historic decisions” that were protection measures Brazilian Institutions and democracy and rule of law. Bolsonaro He added that the trial is not a “hunting”, as Donald Trump described when he announced higher tariffs on Brazilian goods.
this US Government Also approved by Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes Bolsonaro Judgment. The U.S. Treasury Department cites the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Responsibility Act, which targets perpetrators of human rights abuses and corrupt officials and is its power to issue sanctions.
This decision orders freeze any assets or property in the United States
