In an interesting article on Brazilian contingency planning for the defense of the Amazon, Angus MacSwan cites comments by European Union WTO candidate Pascal Lamy: "Brazilian Army Worries Foreign Powers May Eye Amazon". (Reuters, April 10)
"The perceived threat that lurks at the back of many Brazilians' minds is that outsiders covet the Amazon, a fear fanned whenever a foreign politician talks about the forest and its waters as an international resource.
Indeed, former EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy, now a candidate to head the World Trade Organization, in February proposed the Amazon should designated "global public goods" and be administered by the international community -- a proposal that drew a sharp rebuke from Brazilian government."
I don't have a transcript of Lamy's remarks, and I don't know the context in which he made them.
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