Brazil writes to Western leaders on Iran
PressTV
27-May-2010

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has written to Western
leaders against the imposition of new sanctions on Iran.

Amid intensified Western efforts for new sanctions against Iran, the
Brazilian president writes to his US, French and Russian counterparts
underlining the importance of a fuel swap declaration by Tehran.

Brazilian president's spokesman Marcelo Baumbach told reporters in
the capital of Brasilia on Wednesday that the letter by Luiz Inacio Lula
da Silva was delivered on Tuesday to US President Barack Obama,
President Nicolas Sarkozy of France and Russia's Dmitry Medvedev, AFP
reported.

According to the spokesperson, the letter sought to promote a
diplomatic solution, "so as not to lose the opportunity created by the
Tehran declaration."

He added that Brazil intended to "prevent from closing, the door
that was opened with the Tehran declaration."

Mexican President Felipe Calderon and the Union of South American
Nations were other recipients of the letter.

Following talks between Iran, Turkey and Brazil, a nuclear
declaration was issued on May 17 based on which Tehran announced
readiness to send some 1,200 kg of its low-enriched uranium to Turkey in
exchange for a total of 120 kg of higher enriched uranium.

The declaration came as part of an earlier plan to supply fuel to
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