Brazil does have every right to develop its own peaceful nuclear programme.

Our anti-crisis policy is aimed at supporting domestic demand, providing social guarantees for the population, and creating new jobs. Like many countries, we have reduced production taxes, leaving money in the economy. We have optimised state spending.

Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.

Even if we do not always agree on every aspect, nobody should take this as an excuse to declare us as enemies.

Very interested in expanding the number of participants who will take part in laying the new gas pipeline in Europe.

This is not our job, but we always follow the actions of our European partners closely and we wish them luck.

In 2000 the then Prime Minister of Japan [Yoshirō Mori] asked me to return to this process, this conversation, these talks, and to do so, incidentally, on the basis of the 1956 declaration. I agreed. Since then we have conducted dialogue in this regard but I cannot say that our Japanese partners and friends have remained within the limits of the 1956 declaration.