Brazilian President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva on Saturday once more refused to be drawn into the conflict in Ukraine, calling for a “negotiated” settlement between Kyiv and Moscow.
Lula, who’s in search of to revive Brazil’s position as a dealmaker and go-between, has angered Ukraine by saying Kyiv shared blame for the conflict and has not joined Western nations in imposing sanctions on Moscow or supplying ammunition to Kyiv.
“While my government condemns the violation of Ukraine’s territorial integrity, we support a negotiated political solution to the conflict,” Lula instructed journalists after assembly Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa in Lisbon.
“We urgently need a group of countries to sit round a table with both Ukraine and Russia,” he stated.
“Brazil does not want to take part in this war. Brazil wants to build peace.”
Portugal’s president stated: “President Lula believes the street to a simply and lasting peace implies making negotiation a precedence.
“Portugal has a different position. We think that for a road to peace to become a possibility, Ukraine must first have the right to respond to the invasion.”
Lula, 77, who resumed workplace in January after beforehand serving as president of Brazil from 2003 to 2010, met US President Joe Biden in Washington in February and earlier this month visited China, Brazil’s largest buying and selling accomplice.
He raised hackles when he stated in Beijing that Washington ought to cease “encouraging” the conflict by supplying weapons to Kyiv, and that the United States and the European Union “need to start talking about peace”.
“If you don’t talk about peace, you contribute to war,” he insisted on Saturday.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
