Lula on Zelensky: ‘I was scheduled, but he didn’t talk to me’ – News

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2023-05-22 02:52:00

“My diplomats are here, they made an appointment with Zelensky at 3:15 pm, but we received a message that he was late. I received the president of Vietnam, and Zelensky did not come”, said president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), in this Sunday (21), in Hiroshima, Japan, where he participated in the G7 meeting. One of the expected moments was his meeting with the president of Ukraine.

Lula also said that the two did not speak to each other after that. “If there was a more serious problem, a more important meeting, I don’t know. It was scheduled, but he didn’t talk to me, I didn’t talk to him. I was upset because I would like to meet with him to discuss the matter, but he is of legal age, you know what what it does,” he said.

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Zelensky said that he did not meet with President Lula “because there were no steps taken” by the Brazilian. The Ukrainian made this statement when asked, in a press conference, about the reason for not having held a private meeting with Lula in Hiroshima. The Brazilian president was one of the few leaders he did not meet on the sidelines of the G7 summit and guest countries from the so-called Global South.

Debating ways to put an end to the conflict between Ukraine and Russia was one of the expectations of the Brazilian president. However, according to Lula, neither the president of Ukraine, Volodmir Zelensky, nor the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, wants to discuss peace. “It is only possible to discuss peace when Zelensky and Putin want to discuss it. It is not possible to build a proposal in the midst of war. We want them to stop, stop the attacks, and dialogue to find a way out,” he said.

bilateral meetings

Lula met with 11 international authorities during his participation in the G7 leaders’ summit, in Hiroshima, Japan. It is the seventh time that the Brazilian president is invited to the meeting that brings together the largest economies in the world.

In addition to holding bilateral meetings, in which representatives of both parties meet privately, Lula participated in the G7 working sessions. In these meetings, all leaders discussed topics of interest to the group.

Lula addressed issues such as environmental preservation. According to the president, Brazil is committed to the environment, including compliance with the zero deforestation plan by 2030.

Also on the agenda was the restructuring of global governance. Lula defended changes in the UN Security Council. “Today, the UN does not have the strength and political authority to negotiate. If it did, possibly we would not have the war. The concrete fact is that it has no strength. It was created to keep the peace, but it is the members of the council who make war” , criticized the president, who defends the inclusion of more countries in the body, such as South Africa, Japan, India and Germany.

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