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 all through a current journey 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 informed 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 all through 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 strategy to the conflict.”
Lula turned into speakme all through a lunch in honor of journeying Romanian President Klaus Iohannis.
Lula’s foremost overseas coverage adviser Celso Amorim on Tuesday defined complaint 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 implementing 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 information of the genesis of the situation. We are thankful for his or her preference to make a contribution to locating methods of settling this situation.”
Lula has proposed growing a collection of nations to mediate withinside the war.
Lavrov turned into in Venezuela on Tuesday, and might additionally go to Cuba and Nicaragua — all international locations whose leftist governments are beneathneath US sanctions and at loggerheads with Washington.
