Stopping crisis: Priority today - Lula da Silva

BRAZIL: Brazilian President Luiz In cio Lula da Silva assured Monday that the priority for the member nations of the G-20 resides in stopping the crisis so that the economies of the countries grow again in 2010.

“Stopping the crisis, you can have the possibility to definitively make the economy of the countries grow again”, Lula underlined in his habitual weekly program “Coffee with the President”, in which approaches national and international topics every Monday.

On the G20 Summit (the main economies of the world), made the previous week in London, the Brazilian leader sustained that for the first time he participates in a meeting in which all the presidents demonstrated a lot of good sense to fight with the problem of the crisis.

“In an occasion I expressed that the emergent countries didn’t need the help of the rich ones. What I wanted to say with that is that the rich nations must try to solve their own crises for us (the developing nations) to be able to return to normality,” Lula pointed.

He said that in London, there was a political will and an extraordinary disposition of all to try to solve the problem, and that he saw all the presidents worried in finding a solution, to the point that the final document was approved by consent. Lula responded affirmatively to the question on if the measures adopted in the G20 Summit will give practical results, mainly for the countries more affected by the crisis.

First, he said it was plentiful, because they made a decision of strengthening the multilateral institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, so that they can finance the emergent countries, but without the conditions existing in the 80A’s.

He said that all the participants are convinced of the necessity for credit works to facilitate the flow of the commercial scale of the countries.

“Also, we are all worried by the problem of the unemployment and with the need that the economies generate new jobs again,” he stated.

He exemplified, saying that Brazil made the correct thing when it took anticrisis measures and invested in the Program of Growth Acceleration.

He remembered that his government presented a residence program and a plan of reduction of taxes recently for the purchase of automobiles and for civil construction, dedicated to eliminate the effects of the world crisis in the economy.

“If all the countries made that, he pointed out, we will have a great possibility to see the employment grow. Brasilia, Prensa Latina