Russian President Vladimir Putin invited his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to participate in the International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg between June 14 and 17, 2023, the Brazilian press reported on Tuesday.
Brazil’s foreign minister, Mauro Vieira, said his Russian counterpart, Serguei Lavrov, who is visiting Brazil, delivered a letter from Putin to Lula inviting him to join the meeting in St. Petersburg.
The head of the Brazilian diplomacy revealed this information in an interview, after a meeting with Lavrov on Monday, to the newspaper Folha de São Paulo, in which he refuted the United States’ criticism of the Brazilian president’s position on the war in Ukraine . .
Moscow’s invitation parallels that of Kiev, which also encouraged President Lula da Silva to travel to Ukraine to take a “local” look at the current situation in the country, in an effort to change his mind about how he would end this war. must face.
Lula da Silva has been criticized by Washington for his views on the conflict, in statements he made at the end of a visit to the United Arab Emirates after a visit to China, in which he argued that both the United States and the European Union would encouraging conflict by prioritizing the supply of arms to Ukraine at the expense of a negotiated and diplomatic solution.
The Brazilian president has already visited seven countries in just four months since starting his third term in office, in a sign of the country’s repositioning after the isolation that marked Jair Bolsonaro’s tenure.
His next international trip will be to Portugal, where he will make an official visit between April 22 and 25, and to Spain a day later.
Source: DN
