US government insists with Lula for new international mission in Haiti

President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and United States National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan spoke about the situation in Haiti and the United States’ proposal to establish an international mission in the country. as Estadao It turned out that the US was trying to bring together a potential mission in Haiti with its allies and needed a country to lead the proposal. Brazil is often remembered by Americans.

According to former chancellor Celso Amorim, the proposal for the mission in Haiti, sullivan, without suggesting that American Brazil join the effort. “The Haiti issue has been talked about, President Lula personally recalled Brazil’s commitment to the Haitian issue in the past, sometimes even facing internal opposition, and his concern that the situation today is much worse in detail, but he (Jake sullivan) also expressed this concern (with Haiti) but did not make any special requests from Brazil,” he said.

Lead the military arm of the mission that spent 13 years in Haiti.
The US proposal was made public by the Americans at a UN Security Council meeting. The United States is seeking to liaise with allies for the potential mission to be approved by the organization under Chapter 7 of the UN charter on “acts related to peace agreements, breaches of peace and acts of aggression”.

The United States and Mexico said they would submit a resolution proposal to the Security Council to authorize an international peacekeeping force in Haiti, under the terms Guterres advocated. The decision was never presented, in part because no country was willing to take the lead in the process. The prospect of closer ties between the United States and Brazil with Lula’s election fueled speculation that the country might take on that role.

Brazil has been occupying one of the rotating seats of the Security Council since the beginning of this year and will continue to vote in college until the end of 2023. outside the UN. America’s proposal would face resistance from Russia due to the tense relations between the two countries due to the war in Ukraine.

According to Amorim, Lula and Sullivan also talked about climate issues, the war in Ukraine and the political situation in Venezuela. Regarding climate issues, the former chancellor noted that the two discussed the need to involve the United States and Brazil without discussing specific measures.

Regarding Ukraine, Amorim stated that the discussion focused on analyzes of war and the will to work for peace without discussing specific issues. “In the context of this analysis, Sullivan talked about the expectation that other countries could help, for example he mentioned Turkey on grain,” said the former chancellor.

Lula advocated a new global governance by reviewing the functioning of the United Nations Security Council. The meeting was attended by Amorim, as well as the Brazilian side, PT Fernando Haddad and Senator Jaques Wagner (PT-BA), who in the future government should take over the Ministry of Finance.

On the American side, Sullivan, Senior Director of National Security Council Western Hemisphere Affairs Juan Gonzalez, and National Security Council Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs Ricardo Zuñiga were present.