The United States should stop “encouraging” the war in Ukraine, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva stated on Saturday.
Lula told reporters in Beijing, “The United States of America must stop encouraging war and begin discussing peace; In order to persuade Putin and Zelensky that peace is in everyone’s best interest and that war is only of interest to them at the moment. The European Union needs to start talking about peace.
Lula also said that he and Chinese leader Xi Jinping talked about forming a group of leaders who agree with him on Ukraine.
“I have a theory that I have defended with Macron, Germany’s Olaf Scholz, and Vice President Biden, and we talked a lot about it yesterday with Xi Jinping. Lula stated, “It is necessary to constitute a group of nations willing to find a means of making peace.”
Following Russia’s invasion, major arms and aid supplies to Ukraine have come from the US and EU.
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Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, has said that peace talks won’t happen as long as Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, is in charge.
Lula spent Friday in Beijing for talks with Xi Jinping about resetting the tense relationship between China and Brazil that existed under former president Jair Bolsonaro.
In any case, it likewise uncovers a developing separation from international inquiries engrossing the West.
Lula’s trip to China is largely focused on trade, how Chinese investment can help Brazil’s economy get back on track, and the potentially lucrative universe of carbon credits. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has dominated much diplomatic discussion in Europe and Washington.
Lula, like many leaders in developing and middle-income countries, has chosen not to intervene in the war in Ukraine, rejecting efforts by US President Joe Biden to unite the world against Russia’s invasion.
