President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) stated in an interview with the German newspaper The mirror published this Thursday, the 16th, that Brazil will find customers in other parts of the world, if the United States does not want to trade with the country. Lula also said that he managed, during his current term, to open 518 new international markets and that, therefore, he will not sit “idly by and complain”.
“If Trump doesn’t want to buy anything from me, I’ll simply find my customers elsewhere. In three and a half years, we opened 518 new markets for Brazilian products. I won’t sit idly by and complain,” said the president.
Lula also criticized the United Nations (UN) again and said that a change in the geopolitical scenario is “urgent”. According to him, Africa and the Middle East should not be allowed to be excluded from the entity and that the Security Council has become a “ship adrift without a captain”.
“I spoke to my friends Xi Jinping (Prime Minister of China), Vladimir Putin (President of Russia) and Emmanuel Macron (President of France), urging them to call a meeting of the Security Council. My hope was that Trump would meet with them to discuss the matter. Nobody responded. It’s as if we were adrift on the high seas, on a ship without a captain,” he declared.
The president also told the German newspaper that UN Secretary-General António Guterres should call an extraordinary General Assembly to question Vladimir Putin’s actions against Ukraine and Trump’s actions against the Middle East.
“What is unacceptable is that Trump starts a war with Iran, and those who pay the price for this war are the poor in Africa and Latin America, who have to spend more money on beans, meat and vegetables. The UN Secretary General, António Guterres, should call an extraordinary General Assembly as soon as possible so that Trump, Putin and the others can explain themselves”, said Lula.
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The president also said that Putin “did not have the right” to invade Ukraine and that Trump should not intervene militarily in Venezuela or threaten Cuba. The president once again said that Latin America is a “zone of peace”.
