This was announced by the President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will present his plan to resolve the conflict in Ukraine through diplomatic channels at the G7 summitto which he has been invited and which will take place next week in Japan.
After meeting Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte this Tuesday in Brasilia, Lula said in a press statement that his country was “making great efforts” to form a group of nations to help negotiate a peace deal.
“I think this is the time for diplomacy, not war. Everyone knows that Brazil condemned the territorial invasion of Ukraine. But at the same time, the continuation of the war will only lead to death. We need to find someone to talk about peace and Brazil is ready for that,” said the Brazilian President.
Lula said he has already transferred the leaders of China and the UK his idea of creating a group of intermediary countries and that he will do so with all whom he will meet at the next G7 meeting.
According to Lula, each of the parties to the conflict has their own reasons.
“Ukraine really cannot accept the occupation of its territory, it must resist. The European Union has its reasons for the decision it has taken [de apoyar a Kiev]’ he added, pointing out that Brazil and other countries also have their reasons for looking for a solution.
For his part, Mark Rutte acknowledged that his position on a conflict which he stressed threatens the values of the Netherlands and its security is not the same as Lula’s.
“I explained [a Lula] that we also deliver arms to Ukraine, because if we hadn’t done that, Kiev would have fallen in the first few weeks,” said the prime minister, who nonetheless praised Brasilia’s peace initiatives.
The Brazilian President, on the other hand, announced this He has sent his top adviser, former Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, to Kyiv to speak with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskyy.
Amorim, who has already been to Moscow where he met Russian President Vladimir Putin, will meet the Ukrainian President this Wednesday.
“[Amorin] He already knows what Putin wants, now he will know what Zelensky wants, and there we will have tools to talk to other countries and, who knows, to build the possibility of stopping this war,” he stressed.
(With information from RT in Spanish)