Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva proposes a mediation initiative by Brazil and China to end the Ukraine war. “It is necessary to form a group of countries that is strong enough and respected and sit down with the two at a negotiating table,” Lula said in a joint press conference with Chancellor Olaf Scholz in the Brazilian capital Brasília on Monday (local time ). He has already spoken to Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron about the initiative.
The left-wing politician brought himself into play as an intermediary to talk to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy or Russian President Vladimir Putin – as well as China. “Our Chinese friends play a very important role in this,” he says. “It’s time for China to get involved.”