Brazilian President Luiz Inacio, Lula da Silva has stated that the United States should stop “encouraging” the war in Ukraine.
The US and EU have been major suppliers of
arms and aid to Ukraine following Russia’s invasion.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has
ruled out peace talks as long as Russian President Vladimir Putin remains in
power.
Lula is in Beijing for talks with Xi Jinping
seeking a reset in the China-Brazil relationship, which saw tense moments under
former leader Jair Bolsonaro.
“The
United States needs to stop encouraging war and start talking about peace; the
European Union needs to start talking about peace so that we can convince Putin
and Zelensky that peace is in the interest of everyone and that war is only
interesting, for now, to the two of them,” Lula told reporters in Beijing.
Lula
also revealed that during his talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, they
discussed forming a group of like-minded leaders on Ukraine.
“I have a theory that I have already defended
with Macron, with Olaf Scholz of Germany, and with Biden, and yesterday, we
discussed at length with Xi Jinping. It is necessary to constitute a group of
countries willing to find a way to make peace,” Lula said.
The move by Lula reveals a growing distance
from geopolitical questions preoccupying the West.
Like
the leaders of South Africa, India, Syria, North Korea, Belarus, Myanmar, Brazil's Lula has adopted a policy of
non-intervention over the war in Ukraine, rebuffing efforts led by US President
Joe Biden to unite the global community in opposition to Russia’s invasion.
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