Catarina Martins sees the visit of the Brazilian president as a symbol of “resuming normal relations between Portugal and Brazil” and says that Brussels “needs to insist more on peace.”
The BE coordinator defended this Monday that the visit of the president of Brazil has “other criteria” in addition to the war in Ukraine, but defended that the European Union “needs to insist more on peace”, underlining Russia’s condemnation of the conflict.
Asked if Lula da Silva’s visit to Portugal will be jeopardized by the statements he made on Saturday about the war in Ukraine, Catarina Martins replied that “it is not with these criteria that Portuguese foreign policy is governed.”
Lula da Silva delivers a speech on April 25 in Parliament before the atmospheric festive session and with carnations in the background
“The arrival of Lula da Silva has another meaning, it has to do with the democratic functioning of the same institutions in Brazil that are being restored, valuing human rights, right up to the award ceremony. [Camões] to Chico Buarque that had been canceled because with Bolsonaro culture was despised, there is a resumption of normal democratic relations between Portugal and Brazil“said the leader of the Bloc, in Porto, on the sidelines of a demonstration by CP bar workers.
Catarina Martins recalled that, for the BE, the “beginning of the conversation” on the conflict in Ukraine is the “condemnation of Russia” but that the European Union “We must insist more on peace, on wanting to have peace in Europe”.
“It is also true that we have been asking the European Union to be more committed to peace, the European Union has accepted a subordinate role for the United States, it has not had a peace strategy and there is no need to condemn Russia. defend peace and that has been lacking, we must defend peace, ”she stressed.
On Saturday, the president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, defended, at the end of a visit to the People’s Republic of China, that the United States should stop “fomenting war” in Ukraine and that the European Union should “start talking of peace”.
US must stop encouraging war and EU must start talking about peace, says Lula da Silva
In Beijing, Lula da Silva also defended that “the United States must stop fomenting war and start talking about peace, the European Union must start talking about peace”,
On April 25, the Assembly of the Republic will host a welcome session for Lula da Silva, at 10:00 a.m., with a speech by the Brazilian President, followed, at 11:30 a.m., by the solemn commemorative session of the 49th Anniversary of the 1974 Revolution in Portugal.
Source: Observadora
