Under Fire, Brazil's Lula 'Condemns' Russian Invasion Of Ukraine
Under hearthplace for “parroting Russian and Chinese propaganda,” Brazil`s President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva on Tuesday made clean his condemnation of Russia’s “violation of the territorial integrity” of Ukraine. The White House on Monday had criticized Lula’s comments in the course of a current ride to China that Washington turned into “encouraging the war” in Ukraine and that Kyiv shared blame for the conflict.
“Brazil is parroting Russian and Chinese propaganda with out in any respect searching on the facts,” US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby instructed reporters, at the same time as Ukraine additionally expressed anger on the comments.
Lula met in Brasilia on Monday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who’s journeying numerous Latin American countries in the course of the week.
On Tuesday, the Brazilian president insisted that at the same time as his government “condemns the violation of the territorial integrity of Ukraine” it additionally defends “a negotiated political way to the conflict.”
Lula turned into talking in the course of a lunch in honor of journeying Romanian President Klaus Iohannis.
Lula’s primary overseas coverage adviser Celso Amorim on Tuesday defined grievance of his boss as “absurd.”
“We have numerous factors of convergence (with Russia), however at numerous instances Brazil condemned… the invasion of Ukraine,” he stated.
Brazil has now no longer joined Western countries in enforcing sanctions on Russia for its invasion, and has refused requests to deliver ammunition to Ukraine.
Lavrov on Monday stated Russia turned into “thankful to our Brazilian pals for his or her clean know-how of the genesis of the situation. We are thankful for his or her choice to make contributions to locating methods of settling this situation.”
Lula has proposed developing a set of nations to mediate withinside the war. Lavrov turned into in Venezuela on Tuesday, and could additionally go to Cuba and Nicaragua — all international locations whose leftist governments are beneathneath US sanctions and at loggerheads with Washington.
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