By IRNA,
Tehran : Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said in Brasilia on Wednesday that people worldwide welcome changes.
“People in the four corners of the world welcome changes. People, however, do not base their judgment on changes in words and literature but on change in practical approaches,” Mottaki told Brazil’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Affairs, R. Noguera in Brasilia on Wednesday.
Mottaki pointed to foreign powers’ “inefficient” policies in different parts of the world, including in the Middle East, and said conditions in such countries as Iraq and Afghanistan show that foreigners’ policies on the countries have faced deadlock and today, there are whispers on changes in the conditions.”
He then referred to the Zionist regime’s consecutive failures in the 33-day war on Lebanon and the 22-day Gaza war and said, “We believe a new Middle East and basically a new world are going to be born; thus components of the developments should be identified.”
He then touched on the world financial crisis and said, “the global financial crisis and its consequences give us many lessons.”
Noting that attempts by certain people to draw a comparison between today’s economic crisis worldwide and the crisis in the 1930s are “totally wrong and irrelevant,” Mottaki said, “We think the current crisis has nested in the embedded layers of the world economic structures and is going to show off.”
He said the world economic experts should find ways of getting rid of the crisis.
As for the recent summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization in Tehran, Mottaki said that in the meeting considerable decisions were adopted to promote the financial and trade systems in the ECO region.
Somewhere in his remarks, Mottaki urged more trade cooperation with Brazil, asking Brasilia not to consider Iran as a mere market for its exports, rather view it as a trade and economic partner.
Referring to the 40 percent cut in the Iran-Brazil transactions last year as a result of the world financial crisis, Noguera urged more efforts by Iranian and Brazilian officials to compensate the cut in the trade.
He said Iran has always been a major trade partner for Brazil.