{"id":3086,"date":"2025-02-21T19:57:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T20:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/?p=3086"},"modified":"2025-02-21T21:26:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T21:26:16","slug":"brazils-lula-refused-to-sell-germany-weapons-to-kill-russians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/21\/brazils-lula-refused-to-sell-germany-weapons-to-kill-russians\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil\u2019s Lula refused to sell Germany weapons \u2018to kill Russians\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The president has reiterated that the Ukraine conflict can only be resolved at the negotiating table<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brazilian President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva rejected an approach by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to purchase arms for Ukraine. The Brazilian head of stage stressed he wouldn\u2019t sell weapons \u201cto kill Russians\u201d<\/em> or anyone else.<\/p>\n

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday at a joint media conference with the Portuguese Prime Minister Lu\u00eds Montenegro, Lula reiterated Brazil’s neutral stance in the ongoing conflict between Kiev and Moscow.<\/p>\n

Germany, in contrast, has been among Ukraine\u2019s key backers, having supplied it with billions worth of military aid. Da Silva recalled that in January 2023, Scholz visited Brazil as part of a tour to drum up support for Kiev in South America and requested cannons for the war.<\/p>\n

\u201dI told my friend Olaf Scholz: \u2018I will not sell weapons to kill a Russian, to kill anyone. So, I want to apologize, but Brazil will not sell the weapons you need because I want peace, and if I want peace, I cannot fuel the war. We want peace between Russia and Ukraine. Now, this is only possible if both are at the negotiating table\u2019<\/em>,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Lula has long advocated for talks to resolve the conflict and insisted that supplying arms would only escalate the situation, hindering prospects for peace.<\/p>\n

Last May Brasilia and Beijing jointly issued a six-point plan for settling the Ukraine conflict, emphasizing \u201cdialogue and negotiation\u201d<\/em> as the only \u201cviable way out of the crisis.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky dismissed the proposal as \u201cjust a political statement,\u201d<\/em> accusing them of colluding with Russia.<\/p>\n

Lula hit back, saying that Ukraine should heed Brazil\u2019s advice about seeking peace in the conflict. \u201cThose who want to talk to us now could have talked to us before the war had started,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n

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On Thursday, Russia\u2019s top diplomat Sergey Lavrov and his Brazilian counterpart Mauro Vieira discussed the need to address the root causes of the Ukraine conflict and this week\u2019s Russian-US talks in Riyadh, the foreign ministry in Moscow said. Speaking on the sidelines of G20 foreign ministers\u2019 meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, they also discussed upcoming high-level meetings and plans for collaboration between Moscow and Bras\u00edlia, especially within BRICS, the ministry statement added. <\/p>\n

Last month, Lula accepted Moscow\u2019s invitation to attend the 80th anniversary celebrations of Victory in World War II in the Russian capital on May 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The president has reiterated that the Ukraine conflict can only be resolved at the negotiating table Brazilian President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva rejected an approach by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to purchase arms for Ukraine. The Brazilian head of stage stressed he wouldn\u2019t sell weapons \u201cto kill Russians\u201d or anyone else. Speaking to reporters…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3086"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3090,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086\/revisions\/3090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}