Brazil expects that Parliament approves Venezuela's entry into Mercosur in two months

Brazil expects that Parliament approves Venezuela's entry into Mercosur in two months
ABN 22/02/2008


Brazilia, Feb 22 ABN.- The Brazilian Chancellor, Celso Amorín, said that he hopes that the Brazilian Parliament approves in a couple of months the protocol of adhesion of Venezuela into the Southern Common Market (Mercosur), formed by Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.

'The Congress was on vacation for a time before Christmas,' he said and added, 'I hopes that this issue will be solved soon,' Amorín said in a interview published today by the Argentinian newspaper Clarín, in Buenos Aires.

The Chancellor, who travel with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in an official visit to Argentina, said that his country, ' is actively working in order to prove that Brazil wants an alliance with Venezuela, there are no reasons to be afraid and we expect the full adhesion of Venezuela into the Mercosur.'

He stated: 'I don't want to put a deadline due to it would means to put a deadline to the Congress; however, in a couple of moths, maybe two months or one. I really expect that in two months, it will be approved.'

The Venezuela's protocol of adhesion was signed on Julio 4th, 2006, by the Presidents. However, it must be approved by the Parliaments of the four partners founders of the bloc to come into effect. Argentina and Uruguay have already approved it.