Sources from the Brazilian Foreign Ministry reported that the president of that country, Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva, plans to address the issue of Venezuelan migration with the regional presidents. “The format chosen by the Brazilian government aims to create an intimate environment in which heads of state can talk, without interruptions and without large delegations nearby, about Brazil’s idea of reactivating UNASUR, among other issues on the regional agenda,” O Globo recently pointed out
The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, proposed to his regional counterparts a retirement of presidents. The idea is that the 12 leaders can meet in a meeting, without advisers or support, to discuss the future of the region.
According to the medium The world Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is invited to the retreat proposed by the Brazilian president. “Now we are in the consultation phase, seeing how to combine the agendas of the presidents,” added a senior source from the Itamaraty Palace, the Brazilian Foreign Ministry.
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Although the main focus will be debating government agendas, Lula faces another challenge: convincing other presidents in the region to sit at the same table with Nicolás Maduro, whom many governments recognize as a human rights violator.
Among the detractors of the invitation to Maduro are, for example, the Ecuadorian president Guillermo Lasso, the Uruguayan Luis Lacalle Pou or the Paraguayan Mario Abdo Benítez, whose vision is center-right.
Lula proposes to talk about Venezuelan migration
Although for some the issue of Venezuela concerns Venezuelans, for many countries this is an issue of internal politics, with a migration of some 7.5 million Venezuelans who live in different cities of countries in the region such as Quito, Montevideo and Asunción, as well as in Buenos Aires, Bogotá or Santiago de Chile, adds the Spanish newspaper.
“The format chosen by the Brazilian government aims to create an intimate environment in which the heads of state can talk, without interruptions and without large delegations nearby, about Brazil’s idea of reactivating the Union of South American Nations (Unasur), among other topics. of the regional agenda”, recently pointed out Or Globe.
The source assured that Lula’s invitation letters to his regional counterparts have already been sent with a tentative date of May 30. In the text, the president highlighted the “need to revitalize integration in South America, asks to set aside differences in the name of a common destiny, talks about the need to cooperate in defense, health and infrastructure, among other issues.”
The president also stressed in the invitation the importance of seeking collective solutions and repositioning South America as a player on the global stage. Lula’s idea is to relaunch Unasur. organization from which Uruguay and Paraguay left, leaving only Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela.
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