:strip_icc()/i.s3.glbimg.com/v1/AUTH_63b422c2caee4269b8b34177e8876b93/internal_photos/bs/2020/G/d/hix2iOQ3WhAaFJHWlruw/90345609-pa-20bras-c3-adlia-20bsb-2003-11-2020-20coletiva-20de-20imprensa-20com-20o-20vice-presidente-20da-20rep-c3-bablica-20e-20presi.jpg)
[ad_1]
the vice president Hamilton Mourao downplayed the president’s promise on Thursday Jair bolsonaro to reveal a list of countries who, according to him, buys illegal wood from Brazil. Mourão said it is a list of companies, although Bolsonaro has always spoken of “countries” when referring to the list. And he said that he did not believe in the possibility of disclosure, which the president should do today during his weekly “live” on social networks, to create a diplomatic crisis.
“It is not a country, they are companies. The president has already made it clear that they are companies, that is very clear. This is a question of companies, it is a question of international cooperation,” said the vice president when he arrived at the Palace. of the Plateau. “This is cooperation. Interpol comes in, many things come in. This is a matter for the Federal Police.”
Last Tuesday, during the BRICS summit, Bolsonaro announced that he would reveal the countries that buy illegal timber from the Amazon. The disclosure comes amid increased pressure against high deforestation in Brazil.
“In the next few days we will announce the names of the countries that import this illegal wood of ours due to the immensity of the Amazon region, because then yes, we will be showing that these countries, some of them that criticize us a lot, partly have responsibility on this issue, ”he said. “I think that after this demonstration, which is of interest to everyone, why not say it in the world, this practice will decrease a lot in this region.
Before long, he mentioned companies and talked about cooperation.
Mourão, who recently made a trip with ambassadors to the Amazon, said he warned diplomats about the list, drawn up by the Federal Police using an isotope identification method, or “wood DNA” to identify its place of origin.
“This had already been reported in a general way in our trip with the ambassadors. It was the presentation made by the superintendent of the PF in Manaus,” he said.
According to Mourão, the ambassador of the European Union, Ignacio Ybáñez, “reacted” on the occasion.
“The EU ambassador, of course, reacted. But that was a normal reaction. I think it’s normal,” he said, without specifying what the European ambassador’s reaction was.
Upon returning from the trip, Ybáñez and other ambassadors praised the Brazilian government’s initiative to bring them to the region, but demanded that the country show results in dropping deforestation.
Brazil’s environmental issue is one of the issues that has been delaying the implementation of the Mercosur-European Union agreement, which depends on the approval of the European parliaments to enter into force.
