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Financial crisis:
‘perversion’ of world economic system
BRAZIL: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Tuesday
the current financial turmoil reveals the “perversion” of the world’s
dominant economic system.
“We face an international scenario marked by new threats,” he said
while inaugurating the 36th summit of the Common Market of the South (Mercosur).
“The current crisis reveals the perversion of the dominant economic
system, but the crisis also means opportunities for big changes,” he
said.
Lula said the Mercosur members are sufficiently robust in the face of
the current crisis.
“Our countries have very coincidental responses to the crisis.
The central concern of our governments is to defend the wages and
employment of workers and social inclusion,” he said.
“The development of South-South trade is essential to our
development,” he added.
Lula also stressed the need of imposing strict credit restrictions so
as to diversify funding sources and reduce dependence on external
resources.
He hailed the decisions of Argentina and Brazil to conduct bilateral
trade in local currencies, thus eliminating the dollar as a currency
broker, and urged other countries to join this initiative.
Heads of state or government of Mercosur members, Brazil,
Argentina,Paraguay, Uruguay and the bloc’s associate members attended
the meeting held in Costa de Sauipe, some 110 km north of Salvador,
capital of the Brazilian state of Bahia.
The leaders will discuss social protection measures in the face of
the world financial crisis.
The Mercosur’s associate members include Chile, Bolivia, Peru,
Ecuador and Colombia.
COSTA DO SAUIPE
Wednesday, Xinhua |
