Lula will meet this Tuesday with the Pope to discuss the fight against hunger and the war in Ukraine

The combat to hunger and the search for peace in Ukraine will be among the topics that the president of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvawill discuss in a hearing with the Pope Francisco and then in Paris with his counterpart French, Emmanuel Macron.

Lula will arrive this Tuesday at Romeat the beginning of a journey that will also take him to Pariswhere he will attend the “Summit for a new global financial pact”, summoned by the French president.

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The director of the Europe Department of the Brazilian Foreign Ministry, Maria Luisa Escorelexplained in a press conference that Lula’s official agenda in Rome will begin on Wednesday, when he will be received by the Italian president, Sergio Mattarella.

In this first engagement, the “intense relationship” bilateral and also the state of negotiations for a trade agreement between the European Union (EU) and the mercosurwhich one Italy it’s a “great enthusiast”, indicated the diplomat.

Lula will then move to The Vaticanwhere on Wednesday he will be received by the Pope Franciscowith whom, according to Escorel, he has “much convergence of ideas in relation to social and environmental issues, on the fight against hunger and the defense of human rights”.

Likewise, the Brazilian president will present to the Bishop of Rome his initiatives for the search for peace in Ukraineuntil now not very well received by the Western powers and which aim at the creation of a group of countries that can mediate and carry out kyiv already Moscow to a negotiating table.

After the visit to the Pope, Lula will meet with the mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtierian old friend who even visited him in 2018, when the current Brazilian president was imprisoned due to corruption trials later annulled by the Justice.

On Wednesday, Lula will travel to Paris, where that same day he will have a bilateral meeting with the President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosaand with organizers of the next Summit United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP28), which will be held at the end of this year in United Arab Emirates.

The following day, he will join the work of the summit called by Macron, which will try to pave the way towards a new global financial pact that favors cooperation, the fight for the climate, restores North-South confidence and helps to achieve the proposed objectives. by the United Nations in the Agenda 2030.

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On Friday, Lula will have a private lunch with Macron, to whom, according to Escorel, he will reiterate his invitation to participate in the Amazon summit that Brazil has convened for next August in the city of belem.

Likewise, in the meeting with Macron, the negotiations for the EU-Mercosur agreement and Lula’s initiative to search for peace in Ukraine, hitherto resisted by France and other Western powers.

In relation to the EU-Mercosur agreement, Lula himself anticipated this Monday that he will reiterate to Macron his country’s rejection of the new environmental demands that the community bloc has raised.

Source: Elcomercio

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