Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has an obsession: to heal andl international leadership from previous presidencies. This Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the attempt to mediate between the two countries tested Russia’s ambitions, as happened recently. meeting between G7 input Hiroshima. This was Lula’s seventh participation in such meetings as a guest. She returned to her country without the goals she had set for herself, she.
According to Ana Rosa Alves, columnist for the Rio de Janeiro newspaper ‘O Globe’, lula He achieved a personal victory by going to the summit to express the commitment of the world’s most prosperous economies to work together to combat the epidemic. hunger It affects more than one person, the UN argues. 830 million people worldwide. His presence in Japan helped Tokyo review visa requirements for Brazilian citizens. during your stay at HiroshimaThe President also met with nine heads of government, representatives of multilateral organizations and businessmen. The brilliance of these appointments, conflict With his Ukrainian colleague Volodymyr Zelensky.
surprise arrival Zelensky Putting on the summit of the G7 lula confronts the limits of the policy of mediation in the war unleashed by Russia is an ally of Brazil inside BRICS. Brazilian diplomacy, rendezvous Zelensky It was rescheduled several times until it came to naught. These cancellations caused a certain distress in Lula. “Of course he had another commitment and he couldn’t make it,” said the group leader. Labor Party (PT).
a new opportunity
“I’d like to meet with him and discuss the matter,” he persisted in his soothing offer, however. And while noting that “Zelensky minor“He knows what he’s doing,” said Lula, leaving open the possibility of speaking briefly. “If it didn’t work this time, it will work another time. Russia and Ukraine will know that at some point they have to be negotiated. I am ready to go to Russia, to go to Ukraine, to go to the end of the world, to discuss the end of this war. Not now, because they don’t want to,” he added.
before landing JapanLula had set the tone for his views on the difficulties of managing conflict. “President Putin does not take the initiative to stop it, Zelensky does not take the initiative to stop it. Europe and the United States continue to contribute to the continuation of this war. We have to put them at the table and say ‘enough’. Enough,” he said at the beginning of his trip to China and the United Arab Emirates. These words did not please the United States. Washington did not welcome the presence in Turkey. Brazil between Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov. The president then tried to trace his footsteps and sent one of his chief advisers, former Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, to Kiev.
empty hands
“I was in contact with some leaders, but no action was taken on their behalf,” the Ukrainian president said of his failed meeting with Lula. Zelensky He managed to meet with Narendra Modi, whose country India has a more strategic relationship with Moscow than Brazil. That meeting reinforced an idea shared by Brazil’s leading media: Lula, at least in terms of his main passion in international affairs, came back empty-handed. “It loses credibility and time with this idea of being a mediator,” said political scientist Leandro Consentino. “We are a new Cold War, A conflict between West and East, much more so than between South and North. Brazil directs its actions with a narrative from the early 2000s, at a time that could define international relations for the 21st century. Lula needs to realize that.”
Guilherme Casarões, an analyst at the influential Getúlio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo, described the idea of failure as: “This solitary event does not hinder Brazil’s collective mediation efforts.”
Argentina case
Another circumstance these days is testing the incidence capacity. lula. Brazil fears that Argentina, its main political and trade partner in the region, will slide back down the economic cliff. This concern has been expressed Japan to the main office International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva. “I wanted him to understand that after the pandemic, Argentina was going through a drought that destroyed 25 percent of its agricultural production and was a heavy burden,” he said.
lula He advocated “give Argentina time to recover” and thus face up to its commitments. “The foreign indebtedness of many countries that have afflicted Brazil in the past and destroyed Argentina today, a clear and growing inequality, and requires an IMF treatment that takes into account the social consequences of cohesion policies”.
Argentina refinanced a $47,000 million debt contracted by the previous right-wing government. Keeping promises made is very difficult these days. “I hope you understand” aforementioned lula About the repeated message to Georgieva to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.