You can affect Palestine's
future and promote Brazil's interests in the Middle East by urging your Members
of Congress to support these important initiatives.
Support Economic Aid to Palestine
Aid to Palestine is becoming increasingly important as a cornerstone of Brazil's
foreign policy and is a cost-effective way of ensuring that Brazil's close ally
in the Middle East can build a nation in the region, to coexist peacefully next
to Israel, legalized and institutionalized by the international community.
The Lower House of Deputies approved a foreign aid bill and announced a
contribution on September 1st, 2006 that includes US$ 500 to humanitarian
projects in the occupied Palestinian territories. The National Congress made the
announcement though Ambassador to the Middle East, Mr. Affanso Celso of
Ouro-Preto at the International Conference on the Humanitarian Situation in the
Palestinian territories, September 1st, 2006. The approved aid for the
Palestinians represents the first of a plan between Palestine and Brazil to
phase out economic aid to Palestine while gradually promoting the creation of a
Palestinian state. Please thank members of the Lower House who voted for the
foreign aid bill and urge members who voted against it to support it in the
future.
