Russia asked Brazil to resume a bilateral dialogue forum the day after President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva met his Ukrainian counterpart for the first time, according to two Brazilian officials familiar with the discussion.
Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov lodged the request during a Thursday meeting with his Brazilian equivalent, Mauro Vieira, at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the officials said. Lula and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy met Wednesday on the summit’s sidelines, as each of the warring nations seeks to strengthen ties with a leader who has refused to take sides.
Brazil is also interested in reviving the forum, the officials said, viewing it as a permanent aspect of relations that needs to function. Russia’s Foreign Ministry did not respond to an email seeking comment about the commission. Alckmin’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment about a possible meeting with Mishustin.
But the strategy has at times irked Ukraine and its Western allies, generating skepticism of his stated neutrality. Lula’s repeated claims that Zelenskiy and the US shared blame for the war in April led a Biden administration spokesman to accuse him of “parroting Russian and Chinese propaganda.”
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