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Ukrainians plan to deliver protest letter to Lula da Silva in Lisbon

The Association of Ukrainians in Portugal plans to organize a demonstration and deliver a letter on April 25 to the president of Brazil, Luis Inácio Lula da Silvaduring your visit to Lisbon as a rejection of the statements he made this weekend during his visit to beijing and Abu Dhabi.

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“It seems that Lula chose the side of the totalitarian regimethe side of the aggressors”affirmed today to EFE the president of the association, pavlo sadokha.

This weekend, Brazil and China released a joint statement in which they agreed that the dialogue and the negotiation are the “only feasible way out of the ‘crisis’ in Ukraine”.

Brazil claimed that “see positively“China’s position on the conflict and what do you think”useful” to seek a peaceful solution, in reference to the position document published by beijing in February in which he asks “a political solution” to war, a proposal criticized by West to put on the same plane “to the aggressor and to the aggressed”.

on his way through Abu Dhabipointed again to USA and the European Union for being “contributing” to the continuity of the war.

In addition, Lula will receive today in Brasilia to the Russian foreign minister, Sergey Lavrovafter considering, in statements made over the weekend, that the presidents of Russia and Ukraine, Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky, “they do not take the initiative” to achieve peace.

In the letter that they want to deliver to Lula da Silvathe Association of Ukrainians in Portugalwith the support of other Ukrainian communities in the European Union, defends that the Russian invasion “is not a military conflict between two neighboring countries that it is possible to end with a peace agreement” and defended that “There is no neutrality.”

“We are the ones who pay with lives, with the destruction of our country, the world political interests that choose to negotiate with the dictator putin at the cost of the suffering of the countries that Russia invades. we don’t want to see Brazil as an ally of Putin’s criminal regime but his statements worry us.”adds the letter.

“We face superior forces and we need the international support. But it is already evident that this war has divided the world into two camps: those who defend order and freedom and those who put the interests of a political force and power above those interests of human life. In this situation there is no neutrality”close the text.

The Brazilian leader will visit Lisbon between the next 21 and 25 days and, although his agenda has not yet been disclosed, meetings are scheduled with the president of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the prime minister, the socialist Antonio Costaand a bilateral summit to advance common issues.

Source: Elcomercio

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