The PCP’s secretary general said on Thursday that he did not understand how the Brazilian president’s statements “that it was necessary to talk more about peace and less about war” caused “embarrassment” and defended the need to “make peace”. affirm, not war”.
“What’s embarrassing is how embarrassing a proclamation from Lula calling for the need to talk more about peace and less about war, how embarrassing this is. Talking about war,” the communist leader said.
Paulo Raimundo, speaking to journalists on the sidelines of a meeting with workers from Huber Tricôt – Confecções, in Santa Maria da Feira, defended the need to “affirm peace”, not war.
“If there is one thing that ended on April 25, it was the war that opened the way to peace for the country,” he said, adding that Brazilian President Lula da Silva stressed the need to “open the paths to peace” to find.
“It is imperative that all efforts of the countries, regardless of the options they have, be directed towards building peace. We say that although the war had not taken on the escalation it did. All that is a path to peace are agree,” he said.
And he added: “By the way, not only do we agree, but we think that this concern is growing and expanding in Portuguese society and beyond”.
Last week, during his trip to China and the United Arab Emirates, Lula da Silva said that the US should stop “encouraging” war and “start talking about peace” like the European Union, insisting that the pointing the finger for “contributing” to the continuation of the war by sending weapons to the Ukrainian government.
After being criticized by the United States of America and the European Union for his statements, Brazil’s president stressed on Tuesday that he condemns Russia’s invasion of Ukraine while defending peace.
“While my government condemns the violation of the territorial integrity of Ukraine, we defend a negotiated political solution. I spoke about our concern about the consequences of the war, which extrapolate the European continent,” said Lula da Silva.
Brazil condemned the invasion of Ukraine at the UN, but also joined Russia’s positions in voting for an investigation into the attack on the Nordstream gas pipeline last September.
Source: DN
