Brazil will participate in a peace summit in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, scheduled to take place in Saudi Arabia in August, according to the column by journalist Jamil Chade, from the UOL portal.
Brasilia.- Diplomatic sources from the Itamaraty Palace, headquarters of the Foreign Ministry, reported that the negotiations were finalized in recent days.
The meeting, which will take place in the city of Jeddah, on the Red Sea, will be attended by representatives of some 30 countries, including members of the BRICS group (a bloc made up of Brazil, China, India, Russia, and South Africa) and the United States.
According to the column, the government is still evaluating who will represent the country, since the appointment coincides with the meeting that President Lula da Silva called for the Amazon.
Since he took office on January 1, the communicator reports, Lula has insisted on presenting himself as a possible intermediary between the Russians and the Ukrainians, but the project has faced resistance, mainly from the Americans and some Europeans.
It is not the first time that Brazil has participated in peace initiatives to end the armed conflict. At the end of June, the South American giant participated in a similar initiative with representatives of the G7 countries (a group of the world’s most industrialized countries such as Germany, Canada, the United States, France, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom) as well as emerging nations and Ukraine.
The Brazilian government sent emissaries to Kyiv and Moscow, as part of the preparations for the conference.
However, Lula warned the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, that a peace negotiation cannot be based on the attempt to unilaterally impose a plan to exit the crisis.
During the meeting held in Denmark, there was an attempt to approve a final declaration in support of some points in the Ukrainian peace plan, but the idea was prevented by the resistance of emerging countries, including Brazil.
The Brazilian representative, Celso Amorim, specified at the time that “it would not be productive” to approve the document, arguing that any idea of peace would need to emerge from the dialogue between Russians and Ukrainians.
Despite this, Amorim emphasized that the meeting was concluded with an agreement to maintain the dialogue, which was considered a significant advance amid the international crisis.
For the peace process to evolve, Brazil stressed the importance of including China and Russia in the talks, since there is no way to reach an agreement only between the Ukrainians.
In this sense, the August conference will be a crucial opportunity to strengthen the dialogue between all the parties involved. (PL)