Lula and Zelenski do not reach an agreement and the possibility of meeting at the G-7 is thwarted

The Brazilian delegation even negotiated the meeting with the Ukrainian counterpart, but the negotiations were unsuccessful

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT) and the president of Ukraine, Volodmir Zelenskywill not meet D-7. After pressure from the international community, the Brazilian delegation even negotiated a meeting with the Ukrainian counterpart, but the negotiations did not go through. The reason is not yet clear.

The official information is that the agendas were not compatible. Lula offered free slots in her schedule this Sunday, but Zelenski’s team couldn’t fit into the vacant slots. The Ukrainian president will hold a press conference in Hiroshima this night and then already back to Kiev. Lula leaves for Brazil tomorrow morning after a press conference.

In addition to the agenda, one hypothesis is that the meeting did not take place for security reasons. Zelenski is in a restricted area with enhanced security in the Japanese city, while President Lula spent the day in meetings in the hotel where he is staying in Hiroshima, considered the most vulnerable. There is no information on the Brazilian president’s willingness to return to the area where Zelenski was, where he had previously gone to participate in a G-7 panel.

Until lunchtime, the likelihood of a meeting between Lula and Zelensky was considered high among diplomats in Hiroshima, the host city of the G-7. This despite Lula’s resistance to the meeting with Zelenski since yesterday, when the request for a meeting was made by the Ukrainian side.

In the hotel where Lula is staying in the host city of the event, and where he held part of today’s meetings, journalists were even summoned to accompany the start of the bilateral meetings and installed themselves on the same floor as the president. In the press space were two flags, one from Brazil and the other from Ukraine, one on top of the other.

The main assumption is that they would have been placed on the table to be smoothed out before being hauled into Lula’s meeting room. Without explanation, the journalists were fired after accompanying bilaterals with the leaders of the Comoros and Vietnam.

Previously, Lula took part in a G-7 panel in Hiroshima that included Zelenski. Several international leaders greeted the Ukrainian, but the Brazilian president remained seated, as seen on the official summit broadcast.

Lula resisted the bout from the start. Zelensky came to the G7 to try to broaden his alliance in the war against Russia. The Brazilian president was reportedly uneasy about pressure from the international community for the bilateral meeting given the Brazilian position to maintain neutrality in the conflict.

There is a forecast of a press conference by the president at 8:00 (Japan time, 12:00 before Brasilia) this Monday. Lula returns to Brazil shortly after, with a flight leaving at 9:00.

Source: Terra

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