Friday, April 20, 2012

Rousseff: 'Brazil does not interfere on other countries' domestic issues'

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said today that “Brazil does not interfere on other countries’ domestic issues.” Rousseff was addressing the Argentine government plans to expropriate 51 percent of the 57.43 shares in the YPF hydrocarbons corporation - which is majority-owned by Spanish energy company Repsol.

“I was telling the Minister (Edison Lobao, Energy Minister) that Brazil does not intervene on other countries domestic issues,” she said in a Ceremony for diplomat graduates in Brasília.

“In no manner, shape or form we will interfere, judge or express opinions about it,” the chief of state indicated.

Rousseff showed, however, some room for cooperation with Argentina by saying “we have never refused to give help, but it will depend of what is asked of us,” she said.