Lula and Xi hold new talks on Ukraine

president Luis Incio Lula da Silva (PT) stated that on the evening of Monday 5th, May 25, 2023, he had a telephone conversation with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The conversation took place the previous day and covered different topics, including the meeting of the BRICS, an economic bloc comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, and the war situation in Ukraine.

I spoke on the phone with President Xi Jinping of China. We talked about the global situation, the need for peace in Ukraine, our country’s participation in the BRICS summit in August.About our bilateral strategic partnershipslula in Twitter.

The conversation came more than a month after the two heads of state held a bilateral meeting in Beijing, and just days after Lula returned from a trip to Japan, he took part in the foreign engagement portion of the G7 summit, a group of the seven most important countries composition. World industrialized countries (Germany, Canada, USA, France, Italy, Japan and UK).

From 19 to 21 May, Lula met with 11 heads of government and entities in Hiroshima to discuss bilateral issues and topics on the international agenda. Aside from core environmental issues and food security during the summit, the topic that dominated the debate table was the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

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