President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Tuesday (12) that he did not go back from the idea of a currency to the countries that make up Brics. 
“You have to test it. If testing and failing, I was wrong. But I think you need to convince me that I’m wrong,” Lula said in an interview with Band News journalist Reinaldo Azevedo.
The president stressed that the bloc represents a success for Brazil and that US President Donald Trump may be “a little jealous of Brazil’s participation in Brics,” he said.
He defended the bloc on the need to unify interests from global southern countries so that they could dialogue and discuss. “And try to use your similarity (of interests).” Lula argued that the BRICS represent half of humanity and a third of world GDP.
BRICS is made up of 11 member countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia, Indonesia and Iran.
Dollar
Lula said he does not know how to say, however, whether the taxation of the US government about Brazilian products is directly related to BRICS.
“We can’t depend on the dollar, which is a single country coin, which was assumed as the world’s currency.”
He questioned the possibility of negotiating with countries in their coins.
“The dollar is an important currency, but we can discuss in the BRICS, the need for a trade coin between us.”
Lula has again claimed that he defends multilateralism in relations between countries. “Multilateralism is what allowed us to have a certain balance in commercial negotiations between states. The non -predominance of a larger state over a smaller state.”
SEPTEMBER MEETING
President Lula recalled, in the interview, that he will open, on September 23, the UN General Assembly and that he does not know if there will be conversation with President Trump. In the interview, I will defend multilateralism and Brazil. “I will defend our sovereignty and the environmental issue,” he said.
Lula criticized the non -compliance with the Kyoto Protocol and the United States departure from the Paris Agreement.
“I sent him a letter this week, inviting to COP.” Lula has not received a return from the letter.
