Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said that he had a telephone conversation with Vladimir Putin and confirmed his readiness to take part in peace talks between Russia and Ukraine.
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I reaffirmed Brazil’s willingness, along with India, Indonesia and China, to speak with both sides of the conflict in the pursuit of peace,” Lula tweeted.
He also thanked Putin for the invitation to take part in the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, but was forced to decline because he “cannot visit Russia now.”
Lula was scheduled to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Hiroshima, but talks fell through due to a scheduling conflict, Reuters writes.
The OP explained why Zelensky did not meet with the Brazilian leader.
Nothing happened to the President of Brazil. Diplomacy has such a thing as schedule mismatch. This is what happened,” Igor Zhovkva, deputy chairman of the OP, said in an interview with Radio Liberty.
According to him, both Zelensky and Lula did not intend to meet.
Earlier, the leader of Brazil said that the Ukrainian president did not come to the scheduled meeting. In April, he angered many people in the West with the suggestion that both Ukraine and Russia should be at war, and that the US and European countries should stop giving weapons to Ukraine.
The newspaper La Razon writes that Brazilian President Lula da Silva avoided meeting with Vladimir Zelensky at the G7 summit in Hiroshima three times. At one of the meetings, the leaders of the countries greeted Zelensky, but the President of Brazil did not. He felt “a little uncomfortable” about being in the same room with him, the paper said. Lula even avoided looking in the direction of the President of Ukraine.
Da Silva himself said that he was “upset” by the fact that he could not meet with Zelensky at the summit, because the latter was allegedly late.
Source: Racurs
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