From the State Dept. Daily Briefing with Acting Department Spokesman Robert Wood: QUESTION: I have a question about Secretary Clinton’s meeting with the Brazilian foreign minister.
MR. WOOD: Mm-hmm.
QUESTION: Do you know if she plans to raise the case of Paul Goldman who’s been trying to get his son back from Brazil for about four years now, and if she’s aware of the case?
MR. WOOD: Well, certainly, she’s aware of the case. Whether it will come up or not, I don’t know, can’t tell you until after the meeting has happened.
QUESTION: You don’t know if she plans to raise it?
MR. WOOD: I don’t know.
QUESTION: Can you --
MR. WOOD: She may plan to raise it and it may not come up for some reason or another. I just --
QUESTION: Can you bring us up to date, at least, on the case and what you might know about it?
MR. WOOD: Look, the only thing I know about it is that we’re working with the Brazilian Government to try to bring about a proper resolution to the case. But I don’t have any more specifics than that.
QUESTION: Are you frustrated with their efforts to bring the son back to the United States?
MR. WOOD: Look, this is another one – this is one of those very sensitive cases, and I don’t think it helps for me to start expressing, you know, views about it. Let’s let our government – two governments work this out so that we can get a resolution to it.
QUESTION: But it’s fair to say that it’s gotten up to a high level, at the Secretary’s level?
MR. WOOD: Well, certainly, the Secretary’s aware of the issue. We have other Department personnel working on it, so, I mean, that’s not surprising. I mean, it’s an important issue, it’s a very sensitive one, and we want the two governments to try to work it out behind the scenes.
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