Iran's president will be received in Brasilia Wednesday despite Israel's protests, Brazil's Foreign Minister Celso Amorim said Thursday. Israel’s Foreign Ministry opposes the planned visit by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Brazil, and summoned that country's ambassador to Israel, Pedro Motta Pinto Coelho, to register a protest.
"If we stop taking visitors because certain countries disagree with them, we would not be able to accept hardly anyone," O Globo quoted Amorim as saying. But he also said that President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will express his discontent with Ahmadinejad's description of Israel as a "cruel and racist" entity.