BRASILIA: Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota resigned today after one of his diplomats acknowledged that he had helped a Bolivian senator, who had been accused of corruption, cross the border into Brazil.
President Dilma Rousseff accepted Patriota's resignation but appointed him as Brazil's envoy to the United Nations, her office said in a statement.
The current Brazilian U.N. ambassador, Luiz Alberto Figueiredo, will become foreign minister. (QNA)
