Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in the Brazilian capital on Monday at a time when Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is pushing a peace proposal for Ukraine that has angered both Kiev and the West.
The meeting between Lavrov and his Brazilian counterpart Mauro Vieira was expected in March, when they met on the sidelines of the G20 summit in New Delhi. They met this Monday morning and, according to the website of the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, both will meet Lula in the afternoon.
Lula refused to send weapons to Ukraine and proposed to create a club of nations including Brazil and China and so on would be dedicated to trying to resolve the crisis in Ukraine. On Sunday, he told reporters in Abu Dhabi that two nations – both Russia and Ukraine – had agreed to go to war, and the day before in Beijing he said the US should stop “stimulating” fighting and instead focus on research of peace.
Days ago, suggested that Ukraine might cede Crimea to end the conflict, rejected by the spokesman of the Ukrainian foreign minister, Oleg Nikolenko.
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“Would you be willing to give up a piece of Brazil as big as Crimea… just to have peace of mind? We’ll talk there,” former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt wrote on Twitter.
As part of his efforts to end hostilities, Lula has also refrained from sending munitions to Ukraine, despite pleas from German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Lula says sending ammunition would be tantamount to Brazil entering the war, which he wants to end.
His position would have been appreciated by Moscow. One of about 50 classified documents leaked by the Discord platform and reviewed by The Associated Press claims that, by the end of February, the Russian Foreign Ministry supported Lula’s plan to create an alleged club of neutral nationss because this “would reject the ‘aggressor-victim’ paradigm that the West has”.
The document cites electronic espionage as a source.
A few days ago Celso Amorim, special adviser to the Brazilian presidency and former foreign minister, made a discrete trip to Moscow, where he met President Vladimir Putin. Vieira recently told reporters that Amorim “went to listen and said the time has come for dialogue.”
Critics argue that Brazil’s stance on the war in Ukraine seeks to do so avoid a key supplier of fertilizer for your soybean crops, exports largely destined for China. Both Russia and China have permanent seats on the UN Security Council, and Brazil has been trying to join for decades.
Following his visit to Brazil, Lavrov will travel to Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua.
Source: Clarin
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