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Viewing cable 07BRASILIA396, AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH SENIOR BRAZILIAN POLICYMAKERS PRIOR

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07BRASILIA396 2007-03-06 18:55 2011-07-11 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Brasilia
VZCZCXRO7386
PP RUEHRG
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ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 061855Z MAR 07
FM AMEMBASSY BRASILIA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 8289
INFO RUEHRG/AMCONSUL RECIFE 6324
RUEHRI/AMCONSUL RIO DE JANEIRO 3968
RUEHSO/AMCONSUL SAO PAULO 9353
RUEHBU/AMEMBASSY BUENOS AIRES 4629
RUEHMN/AMEMBASSY MONTEVIDEO 6779
RUEHAC/AMEMBASSY ASUNCION 5976
RUEAWJA/DOJ WASHDC
RUEABND/DEA WASHDC
RHMCSUU/FBI WASHINGTON DC
RHEHNSC/NSC WASHDC
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 BRASILIA 000396 
 
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E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL ECON PTER OVIP SENV PGOV EAGR BR
SUBJECT:  AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH SENIOR BRAZILIAN POLICYMAKERS PRIOR 
TO POTUS VISIT 
 
1.  (SBU) Summary.  On February 27, the Ambassador met (separately) 
with three influential GOB policymakers: Minister of Justice Marcio 
Thomaz Bastos, MFA U/S for Political Affairs Everton Vieira Vargas, 
and Lula Private Secretary Gilberto Carvalho.  The wide-ranging 
discussion touched upon a number of different issues, including 
possible topics which might be raised at the upcoming March 9 
meeting between POTUS and Lula in Sao Paulo, bilateral cooperation 
on biofuels, negotiations on an amended extradition treaty, and 
climate change.  Minister Bastos indicated that he would soon be 
departing the cabinet and that current Minister of Institutional 
Relations Tarso Genro (part of the Rio Grande do Sul camp of the PT) 
would replace him.  Bastos predicted that the President's new 
cabinet would be more disposed to working with the USG bilaterally 
than Lula's current, more ideological crew.  For his part, Gilberto 
Carvalho conceded, Lula staff had not focussed a great deal on the 
March 31 visit given that POTUS's March 8-9 stop in Sao Paulo would 
occur first and that was monopolizing their attention.  Lula, he 
declared, was busy preparing for his meeting with POTUS in Sao Paulo 
and very much wanted that event to go well and was anxious about it. 
 End Summary. 
 
Discussion with Justice Minister Bastos 
----------------- --------------------- 
2.  (SBU)  Minister Bastos reiterated that the new Lula 
administration should be less ideological, saying that sometimes 
during the first term, some members of the administration had been 
ideologically still in the stone age.  He added that the current, 
new generation of governors, figures such as Eduardo Campos of 
Pernambuco, Aecio Neves of Minas Gerais, and Jose Serra of Sao 
Paulo, is very business-minded and results-oriented.  This all leads 
to a new political environment within Brazil.  Turning to bilateral 
issues, the Ambassador mentioned that the USG would like to improve 
the current 3+1 (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay plus the U.S.) 
counter-terrorism mechanism to make it more effective.  Minister 
Bastos replied that now is an excellent time for that, as he finds 
that the ministers of justice in the southern cone region as well as 
Brazilian governors are much more receptive to integration and 
cooperation in areas of security and justice than before. 
 
3.  (SBU) The Ambassador inquired about the Minister's expected 
departure from the cabinet and who he expected would be his 
successor.  Bastos replied that he thought President Lula would soon 
announce that Minister of Institutional Relations Tarso Genro would 
be his successor.  Bastos said that he would move to Sao Paulo, but 
that he intends to continue his traditional weekly one-on-one 
meetings with President Lula in an advisory capacity even after he 
leaves office.  Comment: This is probably due to the fact that he is 
his personal attorney. End Comment.  He added that the transition 
will likely take at least several weeks during which time Bastos 
will pass several complicated issues to Genro.  Bastos suggested 
that while Genro is a member of the PT party, he is also worldly 
aware and open-minded, and should be considered a good contact as 
well, especially in light of the growing importance of issues 
covered by the Ministry of Justice. 
 
4.  (SBU)   Bastos mentioned that he recently drafted 16 bills that 
could well have a significant impact on security issues.  He had 
passed these measures on to President Lula who is currently 
reviewing them and should soon be making a public announcement.  One 
of the bills would create 14,000 new beds in the Brazilian prison 
system so as to increase the GOB's capacity to keep criminals behind 
bars.  The Ambassador mentioned that DEA Administrator Tandy would 
be visiting Brazil at the end of March and asked Bastos if he would 
be receptive to meeting her in Sao Paulo (a proposal to which the 
Minister agreed.)  The Ambassador also noted that the USG would like 
to pursue an amendment to improve the existing extradition treaty, 
not to try to draft a new one.  The Minister agreed that this would 
be a good idea, that the MOJ already has people studying this issue, 
and suggested that Dr. Antenor Madruga, who already has an ongoing 
relationship with the USDOJ, be the point of contact for continuing 
discussions on this. 
 
Meeting with MFA U/S Vargas 
--------------------------- 
5.  (SBU) With respect to the upcoming POTUS visit to Sao Paulo, the 
Ambassador and Vargas agreed that increasing people-to-people 
contact, through tourism, business, science and technology, and 
exchanges, would be a worthwhile topic of discussion at the summit. 
The two noted that biofuels would be another key focus of 
 
BRASILIA 00000396  002 OF 002 
 
 
discussion.  Vargas then added what he said was a wholly personal 
(not discussed with others in the GOB yet) idea about inviting 5-10 
heads of state to participate in a dinner at the close of a biofuels 
conference to be held in Rio de Janeiro next year.  The Ambassador 
agreed that it would be good to discuss such an initiative at the 
summit.  Vargas said he did not have specific information about 
which regional issues President Lula wished to bring up.  He said he 
imagined that Lula would include the Doha Round in the list of 
international issues to be discussed.  When the Ambassador asked 
whether Lula would bring up the Middle East, Vargas said it was more 
likely that FM Amorim would raise it during his March 8 encounter 
with the Secretary, but allowed that he could not predict with 
certainty what Lula would choose to raise with the President. 
 
6.  (SBU) The Ambassador asked if the issue of climate change and 
deforestation could arise during the March 31 summit at Camp David. 
Vargas noted that the GOB will be making a presentation at an 
international conference in Cairns, Australia the week of March 5, 
adding that the U.S. delegation had already been in contact with the 
Brazilian delegation regarding that presentation.  He opined that 
Lula might bring up climate change and deforestation within the 
context of biofuels during the summit in Sao Paulo.  For his part, 
the Ambassador noted the First Lady's interest in possibly 
addressing the theme of malaria, specifically the bed netting 
initiative.  Vargas stated that this was a particularly important 
issue for the rural states of Rondonia, Acre, Mato Grosso and 
Amazonas. 
 
Meeting with Lula Private Secretary Gilberto Carvalho 
------------------------------ ----------------------- 
7.  (U)  The conversation with Carvalho, a member of Lula's inside 
circle, touched mostly upon the modalities regarding the March 8-9 
POTUS visit to Sao Paulo and the return March 31 Lula visit to the 
U.S.  Carvalho noted that the GOB was considering staging a 
business-themed event during the latter trip, possibly in 
Washington, D.C. or New York.  Lula, he said, had a good story to 
tell with respect to the economy, adding that the President's second 
term could see further opening in terms of imports regardless of the 
outcome of the Doha Development Round.  Other than that, Carvalho 
conceded, Lula staff had not focussed a great deal on the March 31 
visit given that the March 8-9 trip would occur first and that was 
monopolizing their attention.  Lula, he declared, was busy preparing 
for his meeting with POTUS in Sao Paulo and very much wanted that 
event to go well. 
 
Chicola