Brazilian president was invited to a meeting that will be held from June 15 to 17, but has not yet confirmed presence; Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky was also called
The G7 invited the President (PT) to attend his next meeting, which will be held in Kananaskis, the city of Alberta Province, from June 15 to 17, 2025. The Brazilian has not responded, because, when he received the invitation, he was traveling to Russia and China.
If Lula accepts the invitation, it will be his 1st meeting with the president of the United States (Republican). The president of Ukraine, was also invited to participate in the summit that brings together the 7 most industrialized countries in the world.
The president of South Africa should also be invited as he is the current president of the G20, who brings together the largest economies in the world. It is tradition to have the group representative in the G7 domes. Representatives of the IMF (International Monetary Fund), World Bank and the WTO (World Trade Organization) are also participated.
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An eventual invitation to the summit was already on the radar of Lula’s advisors, so it is likely that the petista confirms his participation. The Brazilian attended the last two meetings, held in Japan, in 2023, and in Italy, in 2024, always as guest.
Lula’s possible meeting with Trump should be held during official summit events. For now, their advisers consider it difficult to meet bilateral.
During the US presidential campaign in 2024, Lula who cheered for the Democrat (Democrat) victory, which was at the time vice president.
In an interview with journalist Darius Rochebin of the television station TF1from France, on November 1, 2024, the petista said that the democratic model of the US was noise and that the “Nazism and fascism” They appeared in the world again with another face.
“Now we have distilled hatred every day, lies, not only in the US, Europe, Latin America, several countries of the world. It is fascism and Nazism by working with another face. As I am a lover of democracy, I find something sacred that we humans have been able to build our country well, I am obviously hoping Kamala winning the elections,” said at the time.
Trump won the elections on November 6 with 312 votes from the 538 Electoral College delegates. He took office to his 2nd term on January 20, as 47th President of the United States. Lula congratulated Trump on the day and He wished “an successful mandate.”
The petista, however, has been critical to Trump’s tariff policy that hit almost every country. The American a 10% reciprocal rate to imported Brazilian products. It also rose to 25% the rates incident for some specific products such as steel and aluminum.
Lula returned on Thursday (15.MAI) of the trip to Russia and China. If you talk directly to Trump, you will have talked to the main 3 players In the international scenario in 2025.
In Beijing, the Brazilian on the 3rd (13.mai) that “Not afraid of retaliation” of the United States after making several speeches aligned with the Chinese during his visit to the country.
On the presidential trip, Lula criticized US protectionism and repeated Chinese discourse that multilateralism is the best way to the global economy, even in this context Brazil has to compete with US products.
The president repeated the desire to negotiate with the US the reduction of US tariffs applied to Brazilian products, but stated that if an agreement does not advance, Brazil “It will seek your rights” in the WTO (World Trade Organization).
Lula also that the relationship between Brazil and China “It has never been so necessary.” The statement was made alongside Chinese leader Xi Jinping (PCCH) during the signature ceremony of more than 30 agreements among the 2 countries.
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Lula is what has participated in G7 domes. Prior to his 3rd term, the last Brazilian participation in group meetings had been in 2009, when the petista was in his second term.
The former presidents (PT) and (MDB) were not invited to the meeting at their respective governments.
In 2020, the then Brazilian president, (PL), to participate in the summit, which would be held in the United States. However, the event was canceled because of the pandemic. In 2021, the United Kingdom was the host country and called representatives of Australia, India and South Korea.
Brazil was again invited after 14 years of the summit held in Japan in 2023. It was the only country in South America with representative at the meeting.
