Brasília, November 20, 2002 (Agência Brasil - ABr) - Donna Hrinak, United States ambassador to Brazil, said that the meeting between president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and legislators from 35 countries in the American continent was very important for making integration possible among the American countries. "We are here because we believe more and more in integration in the hemisphere, not only in trade but in general," the ambassador said. According to the ambassador, political integration, proposed by the president-election during the encounter, is not a new idea. She recalled that during the Summit of the Americas, in 1994, in Miami (USA), an agenda was established with 23 iniciatives, the majority of them, political. (DAS)