Mr.da Silva said he hoped that Honduran security forces would not enter the Brazilian embassy, and asked the nation's interim government to negotiate a resolution to the crisis.

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In its interim report published in April, the commission said that, in the build-up to the crisis, lenders and borrowers took on "excessive and ill-understood risks", and that implicit taxpayer support for the banks encouraged "too much risk-taking".

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And if they can come together and work towards, first of all, an armistice agreement between Israel and Lebanon, and an interim agreement between Israel and the Palestinians, we may have a basis for coming out of this crisis.

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