Keite Camacho
Reporter Agencia Brasil

New York – "As long as you do not have complete disarmament, which is what Brazil favors, you are going to have problems with proliferation," declared Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, at a meeting of the New Agenda Coalition which defends nuclear disarmament.

Amorim said the discussion of the disarmament issue at this year's UN summit was satisfactory. "But it is difficult to deal with the problem and make real progress. The nuclear powers have not advanced since the 2000 meeting when disarmament was discussed at the Non-Proliferation Treaty conference."

Translator: Allen Bennett