The Brazilian government says that the telephone conversation lasted about 20 minutes and revolved around the domestic accident that Lula da Silva suffered on Saturday in Brasilia, which led to the cancellation of the trip.
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The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, spoke by telephone this Tuesday with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, after canceling his trip to Russia to participate in the BRICS summit, which is being held in Kazan.
According to a statement from the Brazilian Government, the telephone conversation lasted about 20 minutes and revolved around the domestic accident that Lula da Silva suffered last Saturday, in Brasilia, and which led doctors to recommend that he not travel to Russia.
Lula slips in the bathroom, goes to the hospital and cancels trip to Russia for the BRICS summit
“President Putin wanted to know the state of the president’s health. [brasileiro]and regretted not having been able to come to the BRICS Summit, and so did President Lula, due to the accident suffered on Saturday,” the statement reads.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, for his part, highlighted Lula da Silva’s determination to participate in the meeting of BRICS leaders by videoconference.
“I just spoke with the president of Brazil. As we know, he had to stay home due to health problems. He regrets not having participated in person”But he intends to join us tomorrow via video conference,” Putin said during his meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in the Russian city of Kazan.
The Brazilian Government reported in the same statement that Lula da Silva’s participation in the BRICS leaders’ meeting will be managed via videoconference.
The Brazilian president suffered a fall on Saturday, causing a small cut on the back of the neck that required five stitchesand he plans to undergo more tests this Tuesday to evaluate his health.
On Monday, in a telephone conversation posted on social media by a political ally, Lula da Silva described the accident as seriousalthough at the same time he acknowledged that “it did not affect the most delicate part” of the head, so he was able to maintain his work schedule.
At the BRICS summit, the Brazilian delegation is led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mauro Vieira.
One of the central points of the meeting of the bloc made up of emerging countries will be the discussion on mechanisms to create a new category of countries associated with the BRICS, without this implying expanding the list of nine members of the forum.
The group was founded by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa and On January 1 of this year, Egypt, Iran, the United Arab Emirates and Ethiopia joined..
Saudi Arabia and Argentina should have also completed their registration this year, but the Middle Eastern country never confirmed its decision to join the group and Argentina withdrew its application at the last minute following a decision by current president Javier Milei.
Almost 30 countries have publicly expressed their interest in joining the forumincluding Cuba, Venezuela, Türkiye, Azerbaijan and Malaysia.
The Brazilian Government defends that the BRICS maintain a balance in the representation of the different regions of the world and that the new members or associated countries have good relations with all members of the group.
The advisor for international affairs of the Brazilian Presidency, Celso Amorim, declared this Monday against Venezuela’s entry into the BRICS in an interview with local media and maintained that the group must be expanded with countries with profiles that can contribute within the context of a “polarized and multipolar world.”
“The entry of new countries must be studied very well. You need countries that can contribute. Have a strategic conception of admissions. Remember that the world is currently experiencing wars with the potential to become world wars. So, the admission criterion is more important than the country itself,” Amorim told CNN Brazil without mentioning the fact that Brazil does not recognize the re-election of Nicolás Maduro as president of Venezuela, surrounded by suspicions of fraud, after having actively participated . involved in the negotiations for the presidential elections to be held in the neighboring country.
Source: Observadora
