The Brazilian president, who will visit Beijing next week, will propose to his Chinese counterpart the promotion of dialogue between Russia and Ukraine and said that the invaded country may have to cede Crimea.
Russian President Vladimir “Putin cannot keep the land of Ukraine. Crimea may be discussed. But what invaded again, we have to rethink,” said Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in Brasilia, during a meeting with journalists on Thursday. .
On the other hand, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “cannot want everything.” [NATO] it will not be able to settle on the border,” Lula was quoted as saying by state news agency Agência Brasil.
“I am sure that when I return from China (…) I will say that the group that is going to discuss peace has been created, which is what the world needs,” he stressed.
Lula da Silva also explained why he wants to sit at the negotiating table with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
“China’s economic, military and political importance and China’s relationship with Russia, and even China’s divergence with the United States, give China extraordinary potential for conversation,” he stressed.
The proposal that Lula will present to Xi Jinping will be to create a group with China, Brazil, Indonesia and India.
“China has weight, Brazil has weight. I think Indonesia can participate, India can participate. Let’s talk” with Putin, Zelensky and US President Joe Biden, he said. And try to find “a group of people who won’t settle for war.”
Lula’s trip had been postponed at the end of March due to health problems, but after being released from the hospital, where he was hospitalized due to pneumonia, the Brazilian president rescheduled his visit.
Without Lula da Silva, the Brazilian mission, headed by several ministers and made up of about 250 businessmen, signed around 20 agreements, including one that takes the first steps towards the adoption of local currencies in bilateral trade without the US dollar.
“I want the Chinese to understand that investments here [no Brasil] they will be welcome, but not to buy our companies, but to build new things that we need. It is not selling the assets we have, it is building new assets”, he stressed.
Since 2009, China is Brazil’s main trading partner. According to the Brazilian Agency for the Promotion of Exports and Investments (ApexBrasil), trade reached US$150.5 billion (EUR 137.8 billion) and a surplus for the South American country of US$29 billion (26.6 billion euros) in 2022.
Source: TSF
