LISBON – Brazil won't take sides over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Overseas Minister Carlos Franca mentioned on Tuesday, including its stance was one among “impartiality”, not “indifference”, and that it sought peace.
The invasion has triggered one of many quickest refugees crises of contemporary instances, the United Nations says, with greater than two million Ukrainians, largely ladies and kids, fleeing in simply 13 days into the European Union to flee Russia’s shelling and bombardment of cities and cities.
“Brazil’s place is evident… We're on the facet of world peace,” Franca instructed a information convention in Lisbon when requested if he condemned the invasion. “We expect we will attain that (peace)… by serving to to discover a method out (of the warfare), not by taking sides.”
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who visited Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow shortly earlier than the invasion, angered Western allies by saying he was “in solidarity with Russia” with out elaborating.
Bolsonaro, a far-right populist, has additionally famous that Russian fertilizers are essential for Brazil’s big agribusiness sector.
Final month he scolded his Vice President Hamilton Mourao for condemning Russia’s invasion and mentioned that in Brazil solely the president may talk about a disaster in japanese Europe.
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