Updated on 04/04/23 at 03:29
Diplomatic channels remain open between Brazil and Russia. An aide to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva met with Vladimir Putin in Moscow on March 25 to discuss Ukraine, a presidential source in Brasilia said on Monday.
According to this source, Celso Amorim, Lula’s top adviser on international affairs, met with the Russian president in the Kremlin for an hour. He also had lunch with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who is expected in Brazil on April 17, according to the same source.
A still vague mediation project
At the end of January, Lula formulated a still vaguely outlined proposal for mediation in the Ukraine conflict by a group of states. The head of state must also present this project to his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing on April 13.
“To say that the doors are open would be an exaggeration, but to say that they are closed is also not true,” Celso Amorim told CNN Brasil on Monday, discussing the proposal’s chances of success after meeting Vladimir Putin.