Before taking office, Lula met with envoys from Ukraine and Russia to propose a way out of the war

The meetings were held separately last Saturday night and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva used them to express the interest of his upcoming government in contribute to a kind of peaceful solution to the war of aggression of Russia over Ukraine.

Luiz, accompanied by his former foreign minister Celso Amorim, received diplomats and officials sent to the inauguration ceremony from Moscow and Kiev at his hotel in the Brazilian capital.

Lula spoke separately with the President of the Council of the Russian Federation, Valentina Matvienko, and with the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Yulia Svyrydenko. Brazil’s desire for peace and that the parties find common ground for an end to the conflict,” Lula tweeted.

Later he received the Ukrainian envoy. And in that appointment he was more specific about the position of his future government with respect to the war. Lula wrote that “I thanked him for President Volodimir Zelensky’s greetings (and expressed it) in Brazil we have a tradition of defending the integrity of nations and that we will talk to whoever is needed for peace.”

This was told by diplomat Mauro Vieira appointed by Lula to cover the chancellery of his administration clarion that the new government is clearly against the Russian war of aggression.

“We condemn it. Brazil, and Lula has already said it many times, is against the aggression of one country on another the conquest of territory by force. Our Constitution forbids it, in fact. We condemn it without any doubt. Clearly,” she said.

He stressed, however, the need to find a way out of the conflict. “The problem of refugees who have fled from Ukraine to Europe is tremendous, very visible.”

In this sense, he argued that “we believe that the time has come, after almost a year of war, to stop and unconditionally discuss a way out, otherwise the situation will become even more dire, especially for innocent civilians.”

This envoy told him it would be A dialogue without conditions is very difficult. No country would agree to negotiate unless the invading forces leave their territory. It is an essential condition.

Vieira, a veteran diplomat who served as ambassador to the United States, Argentina and the United Nations, responded: “Definitely, but I think it’s imperative create a dialogue channel somehow. There must be one or more contacts, even if it is for specific issues that go first to the ceasefire, then to health care”.

“We have been at war for a year. It is also important for the world to make this progress because, after the impact of Covid, this conflict has created an economic disaster. The time has come to stop this horror“, he remarked.
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