PCP General Secretary Paulo Raimundo reaffirmed that he did not understand the astonishment surrounding Lula da Silva’s statements about Ukraine and criticized the countries defending the way to add weapons to the war.
“I cannot understand the surprise at President Lula’s statements [da Silva ]when, deep down, he asks a question about what is essential for everyone, the need to talk more about peace and less about war,” Paulo Raimundo said today.
On the sidelines of a meeting with fishermen, in Peniche, the PCP leader believed that the words of Brazil’s President Lula da Silva reflect a call that “countries, regardless of the options they have, invest all their efforts in building peace and not in building war”.
“It’s a legitimate aspiration and an urgency” right now, he said questioningly: “how many more deaths will it take and how much more destruction will it take to realize that the path people must walk is the path of peace and not the path of war”.
“More and more people are needed to pressure supporters and actors in the war to sit around the table for peace negotiations, because that is what the people need,” said Paulo Raimundo.
Responding to the views of Lula da Silva’s position expressed in other European countries, the PCP leader expressed surprise that “given the continuous destruction, the deaths and when peace is needed, part of the countries of the European Union the way forward is to add more arms to arms, more war to war, while the Ukrainian people and the Russian people die.”
Paulo Raimundo spoke in Peniche, at the end of a lunch with fishermen from all over Leiria.
Source: DN
