Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, said this Thursday that “the only plan capable of stopping the Russian war of aggression is the Ukrainian peace formula”after meeting with Former Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, who raised the need for both kyiv and Moscow to make concessions to achieve that goal.
This was stated by the president in a message on his Twitter account, after the meeting with the special envoy of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to Ukraine in which the possibility of holding a summit between Ukraine and Latin America.
“I hope to continue the dialogue with President Lula and welcome him to Ukraine,” wrote the Ukrainian president. on your social network account.
Amorim met with Zelensky today to listen to his demands and demands, just as he did in April when he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“It will not be easy to reach a convergence. It will be necessary for both parties to come to the conclusion that the cost of the war is much higher than the cost of certain concessions,” the former foreign minister was quoted as saying by the Brazilian newspaper O Globo.
The Brazilian envoy added that the talk took place in an atmosphere of “great trust” and that the Ukrainian president “understood correctly” when he heard that Lula wants to work for peacealong with other countries that are talking with Ukraine and Russia.
“Of course, Zelenski has his positions, but I think that’s how we progress. We must have a group of countries that are working on the issue, discussing with each other, so that Ukraine and Russia can talk,” he stressed.
Lula and the balance for an agreement between Ukraine and Russia
Hand in hand with Lula’s return to the Presidency, Brazil seeks to position itself as an intermediary in the conflict, amid criticism from part of the international community for seeking a solution that does not involve continuing to arm Ukraine.
Amorim’s journey to kyiv, Announced at the end of April, it seeks to lessen the criticism that the Brasuk government received from Ukraine’s Western allies, which they consider to be nods to Russia.
On Tuesday, Lula said that his country wants to behave with “balance” in the war in Ukraine to try to stop the conflict.
“Brazil and other countries have reasons to stay in a balanced position, Ukraine has to resist, the European Union has its reasons too,” said Lula, who had been criticized for not sending his diplomats to Ukraine after they visited in last March Moscow.
The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, was at the end of April in Brasilia listening to the Brazilian initiative, in the framework of a Latin American tour that also included Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba.
Lula assured that he intends to present his plan to create a “peace club” during the participation on May 21 of the meeting of the G7, the group of most developed allied countries, at the summit in Hiroshima, Japan, to which he was invited. .
He added that he has already discussed the need for a ceasefire with the United States, the European Union, Russia and China.
Source: Ambito
