Brazil’s candidature to be a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council should have as its main subject the environmental question, suggested senator Fernando Collor de Mello (PTB-AL), Brazilian former president. During a meeting of the Committee on Foreign Relations and National Defense (CRE), on Tuesday (13), he proposed a revision of the world security concept.

- Currently, this concept should include safety of life on the planet. We must require to the current council effective actions aiming the security defense not by means of weapons and bombs, but in the direction to save million of lives which have been lost because of hunger and thirstiness – stated Collor, when participating of the meeting destined to appreciate the name of the ambassadress Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti, assigned to represent Brazil at ONU.

The senator recognized that Brazil may not be considered an economic potency or a warlike power, demanded requirements to enter on the Security Council. But he observed that its great influence on environmental questions might qualify the country to participate of the collegiate. Collor still criticized some of the current permanent members, such as the United States and China, for their performances in what he called a process of “destruction of the planet”.

Still during the meeting, senator Eduardo Suplicy (PT-SP) gave books of his authorship,  Citizenship Basic Revenue, to the ambassadress nominated to represent Brazil at UN as well as to the ambassadress nominated to Cape Verde, Maria Dulce Silva Barros. He expressed his disposition to debate the subject where the ambassadresses will work.

At the end of the meeting, on demand of Suplicy, the president of the committee, senator Heráclito Fortes (PFL-PI), confirmed to the 27th the participation of the former Brazilian ambassador in Washington Roberto Abdenur. In a recent interview to Veja magazine, Abdenur criticized the current external Brazilian politics.