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The Ministry of Foreign Relations will wrap up 2015 without publishing the Foreign Policy White Paper \u2013 a public document containing the principles, priorities and outlines of Brazilian international policy. Over the course of his mandate, the former Foreign Minister Alberto Figueiredo promised to complete the process of drafting the White Paper by December 2014.<\/p>\n

In January of this year, under the administration of the new Foreign Minister, Mauro Vieira, Conectas filed a Freedom of Information request<\/a> to discover the whereabouts of the document and the official time frame for its publication. In March, the ministry responded that it was \u201cconducting internal consultations concerning a preliminary version\u201d and that the next stages of the project would be defined after these consultations (click here<\/a> to read the full response).<\/p>\n

Besides adding more transparency to the activities of the Foreign Ministry, the White Paper has the potential to expand the channels of interaction between diplomacy and society, improving the knowledge and public monitoring of the work conducted by the ministry. In Brazil, the Ministry of Defense has a similar document, which is provided by law and was published in 2012.<\/p>\n

Participatory process<\/strong><\/p>\n

Conectas and other organizations working to ensure the prevalence of human rights in foreign policy (a principle established in article 4 of the Brazilian Constitution) have been exerting pressure for the drafting process of the document, announced by the former minister Figueiredo in 2013, to be as open as possible to participation.<\/p>\n

Between February and April 2014, the Foreign Ministry organized a series of meetings called \u201cDialogues on Foreign Policy\u201d<\/a> to step up the debate between government and society on Brazil\u2019s role in the world and to assist with the preparation of the White Paper.<\/p>\n

According to Camila Asano, coordinator of the Foreign Policy program at Conectas who was present at one of these meetings, the initiative was inadequate. \u201cThe ministry did not hold open public consultations, either with Congress or more broadly with society. In terms of participation, the process has fallen far short of what is needed,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Over the course of 2015, the Brazilian Foreign Policy and Human Rights Committee sent two letters to the Foreign Ministry calling for the creation of broad consultation mechanisms. Click\u00a0here\u00a0and here to read the documents in full.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are talking about an essential document for guaranteeing the transparency and consistency of Brazil\u2019s international action,\u201d said Asano. \u201cEach day of delay increases the distance between the Foreign Ministry and society, compounding the misguided and dangerous perception that foreign policy is not public policy,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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