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| President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil is scheduled to address the United Nations General Assembly on Monday. The New York Times’s Rio de Janeiro bureau chief, Simon Romero, looks at her message for international leaders and how it might be received. | President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil is scheduled to address the United Nations General Assembly on Monday. The New York Times’s Rio de Janeiro bureau chief, Simon Romero, looks at her message for international leaders and how it might be received. |
| The tradition is thought to stretch back to the founding days of the United Nations. Lore has it that this distinction was given to Brazil as a consolation prize after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s proposal to make Brazil a permanent member of the Security Council fell through, according to Geraldo Zahran, a professor of international relations at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. | The tradition is thought to stretch back to the founding days of the United Nations. Lore has it that this distinction was given to Brazil as a consolation prize after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s proposal to make Brazil a permanent member of the Security Council fell through, according to Geraldo Zahran, a professor of international relations at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. |
| Brazil has various objectives at the United Nations. In addition to their ambition to obtain a permanent seat on the Security Council, its leaders are focused on Internet governance, gender equality, the international migrant crisis (Brazil is preparing to accept more Syrian refugees), and affirmative action policies. They also want to promote Brazil’s progress in battling deforestation in the Amazon basin. Ms. Rousseff touched on some of these themes in public remarks over the weekend. | |
| It is hard to know. Last year, Ms. Rousseff was in the midst of a tightly disputed re-election campaign when she spoke at the United Nations, and her speech, which focused largely on Brazil’s achievements in reducing poverty, was widely viewed as one directed at a domestic audience. This year, Brazil is facing its worst economic crisis in decades and an array of intensifying corruption scandals, while Ms. Rousseff is battling calls to resign. | It is hard to know. Last year, Ms. Rousseff was in the midst of a tightly disputed re-election campaign when she spoke at the United Nations, and her speech, which focused largely on Brazil’s achievements in reducing poverty, was widely viewed as one directed at a domestic audience. This year, Brazil is facing its worst economic crisis in decades and an array of intensifying corruption scandals, while Ms. Rousseff is battling calls to resign. |
| It is a delicate time for her to leave for New York. She might emphasize that her government has allowed judicial investigations into graft scandals to proceed, bolstering Brazil’s institutions even though her leftist Workers’ Party faces intense pressure as a result of bribery revelations. | It is a delicate time for her to leave for New York. She might emphasize that her government has allowed judicial investigations into graft scandals to proceed, bolstering Brazil’s institutions even though her leftist Workers’ Party faces intense pressure as a result of bribery revelations. |
| Ms. Rousseff might try to steer clear of the reasons Brazil’s economy has gone from boom to bust. The economic crisis has opened her administration to withering criticism over policies that some believe make Brazil more vulnerable as commodities prices have fallen. | Ms. Rousseff might try to steer clear of the reasons Brazil’s economy has gone from boom to bust. The economic crisis has opened her administration to withering criticism over policies that some believe make Brazil more vulnerable as commodities prices have fallen. |