Journalists look at a screen showing Brazilian Chancellor Mauro Vieira speaking at the International Peace Summit. | Photo: KHALED DESOUKI / AFP October 21, 2023
The Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira travels this Sunday evening (29) to New York in the United States, where he will attend the emergency meeting of the United Nations (UN) Security Council to discuss the war between Israel and extremist group Hamas. The meeting will take place this Monday (30).
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) and Itamaraty are focusing their efforts on finding a peace solution and creating a humanitarian aid corridor in the Gaza Strip so that innocent people can leave the conflict region by land across the border with Egypt. This will be another attempt to achieve that goal.
Since the first meeting of the Council to discuss measures to end the war, nations that are part of the college responsible for seeking measures for international peace have vetoed at least four proposed resolutions. There were two proposals from Russia, one from Brazil and one from the USA.
On October 18 of that year, after a veto by the United States, the group rejected Brazil’s proposed text on the war. Of the 15 possible votes, Itamaraty received 12 yes votes, two abstentions and one no vote. Since the United States is a permanent member of the college, the country has veto power over all decisions of the group, which prevented the implementation of the Brazilian government’s project.
The UN Security Council will be chaired by Brazil until Tuesday (31). In addition to the USA, China, France, Russia and the United Kingdom are permanent members. Albania, Brazil, Ecuador, Gabon, Ghana, Japan, Malta, Mozambique, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates are part of the rotating council.
Brazilians in the Gaza Strip
Since the start of the conflict between Israel and the extremist group Hamas, a group of 32 people have waited 22 days to clear the border to be rescued by the Brazilian government. Last Thursday (26), Rafah and Khan Yunis, in the south of the Hamascontrolled territory, were recorded as the cities with the most deaths from bombs fired by Israel in the Gaza Strip.
The group of 32 is divided into Rafah (8 children, 4 women and 4 men) and Khan Yunes (9 children, 5 women and 2 men). Everyone is waiting for permission from the Egyptian government to pass through the checkpoint, the only exit from Gaza. The Brazilian government has vehicles ready to take the group to an airport on Egyptian territory, where a plane from the Presidency of the Republic has been waiting for more than a week to take them to Brazil.
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