2023-04-17 23:54:35
Serguei Lavrov pointed out that Brazil has a “clear understanding” of the origin of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a country that he refrained from naming.
The visit generates criticism among the Brazilian press, which condemns religious fundamentalism, the persecution of sexual minorities and the invasion of Ukraine
The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, He assured in Brazil that his country and the hosts were “united by the desire to contribute to a more democratic and multipolar world order, based on the fundamental principle of the sovereignty and equality of States.” Lavrov, who also intends to visit Venezuela, Cuba y Nicaraguathree unequivocal allies of Moscow, did not speak directly about the invasion of Ukraine, but dared to ensure that Russia and Brazil have “similar approaches” on current issues. For now, the head of diplomacy of Vladimir Putin he heard in Brasilia what he came to look for in the mouth of his counterpart Mauro Vieira: the criticism of the Government of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to the international sanctions against the Kremlin. “We talked about various relevant issues on the international and regional agenda, stressing that the approaches of Brazil and Russia on the issues that are happening in the world today are similar,” added the minister.
“We are very grateful to our Brazilian friends for its clear understanding of the genesis of the situation”, he also pointed out and, again without mentioning the invasion of Ukraine, expressed “thank you” to Brazil for its “desire to help find ways to resolve this situation”.
Lula’s project
Putin’s emissary landed in South America a few hours after Lula propose one joint mediation with China and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to end the war. The Brazilian president made this proposal as part of his tour of beijing y Abu Dhabi. “I think we are finding a group of people who would rather talk about peace than war. I think we will succeed,” said the leader of the workers party (PT) in Abu Dhabi, last Sunday. For Lula, “the decision of the war was taken by two countries”. In that sense, he blamed the United States and Europe for prolonging the conflict. “Russian President Vladimir Putin does not take the initiative to stop, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, does not take the initiative to stop. Europe and the US continue to contribute to the continuity of that war. We have to sit them down at the table and tell them ‘enough is enough’.”
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The EU assured this Monday that “Russia, and only Russia, is responsible for the unlawful and provocative aggression against Ukraine.” Those words did not go unnoticed in Brazil. the paulista newspaper Sheet He considered that Mauro Vieira should not have received Lavrov, “one of the most durable and important ministers of the Putin government: he commanded the portfolio when Russia annexed Crimea in 2014; when he bombarded the civilian population with weapons prohibited in Syria in 2015; when the criminal war against Ukraine started in 2022”. His visit to the South American country, “is unnecessary and will be used tactically by the Putin regime to bolster its anti-Western argument.”
Before landing in Brasilia, Lavrov had published in Sheet a public letter. “Russia’s cooperation with Latin America is based on a non-ideologized approach and does not threaten anyone,” she maintains. According to the publication, “the text takes up the reasoning adopted in Putin’s speech on September 30, 2022, when the Russian president used anti-colonial rhetoric to blame the West for having exploited, enslaved and expropriated non-Western peoples.” He also “used the principles of cultural relativism” to defend Russian “traditional values” (religious fundamentalism, heteronormative family, political authoritarianism) against “moral degradation” from the West represented “by human rights, feminism, the LGBTQIA + movement, freedom of expression and other social rights.” All of this, he replied Sheet “to finally legitimize their sovereign right to to break into, interfere y restrict the rights of the population in the countries”.
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