President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva spoke this Thursday (2nd), via a video call, with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky. The Eastern European country has suffered for just over a year with a Russian military invasion, in a war that counts thousands of dead and millions of refugees. Information about the conversation was released by Lula in a post on social networks.
“I just had a video meeting with the president of Ukraine, Zelensky. I reaffirmed Brazil’s desire to talk to other countries and participate in any initiative around the construction of peace and dialogue. War cannot interest anyone,” he wrote. the Brazilian leader.
I had a video meeting just now with the president of Ukraine, @ZelenskyyUa. I reaffirmed Brazil’s desire to talk with other countries and participate in any initiative related to building peace and dialogue. War cannot interest anyone.
— Lula (@LulaOficial) March 2, 2023
Lula has proposed to other foreign leaders to creation of a group of countries to engage in mediation to end the war in Ukraine. The theme was part of Conversation between the Brazilian President and the President of the United States, Joe Bidenin February, and should be on the agenda of the bilateral meeting that Lula will have this month with the president of China, Xi Jinping, in Beijing.
Phone call
This Wednesday (1st), Lula also spoke by telephone with the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador. They spoke about cooperation between the two countries, and Lula informed that he had received an invitation to visit Mexico, with no set date yet.
