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because it is close by, i certainly think that actually lula is a wonderful president for brazil. i think he has put his country on a path that is leading it to become one of the great powers in the future. >> other questions? >> i was wondering if in your opinion if you believe that guantanamo is strategically important to our military today. >> no. not right now. since the 19 70's and 80's, guantanamo has become primarily a coast guard facility and there also is a place it's no longer called immigration and naturalization service, but csis and the process people who want asylum. however, there are plans underway to expand the panama canal so that it can accommodate much larger ships than it has been able to of course with the development of very large battle ships and aircraft carriers and freighters and so on. assuming that expansion of the panama canal takes place, once it is completed then guantanamo might assume a kind of strategic significance that it hasn't had in recent decades and i think that right now today guantanamo is proving its worth once again as a deployment cen

are you going to tell him, lula, you need to press more iran? what is the real factor in the meeting with lula in relation with iran? >> as you know undersecretary bill burns is in brazil today and so he's going to be having conversations with his counterparts on many issues also on this particular issue, and the secretary will have the same conversations there. and let me make it absolutely clear that we will be telling our brazillian counterparts we encourage them to encourage iran to regain the trust of the international community by fulfilling its international obligations which we feel that they have not fulfilled. so we will be urging of the brazilians to take a constructive role with regard to the engagement with iran. >> assistant secretary, you talk a lot about the common things the united states has with region. it seems the region, in recent months, and since this administration came into office, it is feeling a little bit more divided from the united states and that -- you know, just last week, countries in the region formed a new re

in may, president lula will travel to tehran.m that although brazil has a lot of influence, it also has to have responsibility. i want to go directly to the point. what kind of conversations will there be with lula? would you say you need to press more with iran? what is the real factor in the meeting with lula in relation to iran? >> as you know, the undersecretary is in brazil today. so, he is going to have conversations with his counterparts on many issues and also on the this particular issue. the secretary will have the same conversations. let me make it absolutely clear, we will be telling our brazilian counterparts that we encourage them to encourage iran to regain the trust of the international community, by fulfilling its international obligations. so we will be urging the brazilians to take a constructive role with regard to their engagement with iran. >> mr. assistant secretary, you talk a lot of about the common things the united states has with the region. it seems like their region in recent months and since this ad