“The West must stop filling Ukraine with weapons.” Even before arriving at the G20 foreign ministers' meeting, Russian diplomat chief Sergei Lavrov used social media and an interview with the O Globo newspaper as a megaphone to push Moscow's positions on the war in Ukraine, which fueled tensions with the bloc. Western countries supported Kiev, polarizing the atmosphere of the meeting, the first at a high level under the Brazilian presidency.
A meeting that took place in Rio de Janeiro, partly overshadowed by the diplomatic crisis between Lula and Netanyahu's government, with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who paid a visit to the South American leader in an hour and a half in the morning in Brasília, did not fail to express his To express dissatisfaction over the allegations of “genocide” in Tel Aviv and the comparison with Nazism.
Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Viera sought to defuse tensions at the opening of the meeting by presenting the forum as a place “where countries with opposing views can sit at the same table for productive dialogue.”
A format in which the war in Ukraine and the Gaza conflict are discussed in order to find a political solution for peace, because he stressed it is “unacceptable for the world to accept the 2 trillion US Exceeding the dollar limit on military spending, while spending on …”Fighting climate change does not reach $100 billion per year, or 5%.”
ViceChancellor Edmondo Cirielli expressed the desire to bring to the table a line of “moderation and balance in the firmness of the Atlantic position”.
The Italian Foreign Ministry representative told Lavrov that although he classified Lavrov as a servant of “a tyrant” who is “trying to defend the indefensible,” he was ready to “use all of Italy’s options to try to calm the situation.”
On the Ukraine issue, the Briton David Cameron also fought against Moscow and recalled the sacrifice of the antiKremlin activist Alexei Navalny, supported by Western colleagues such as the Frenchman Stéphane Séjourné and the German Annalena Baerbock.
While the BRICS countries with Chinese Vice Minister Ma Zhaoxu, South African diplomat Naledi Pandor and India's Vellamvelly Muraleedharan did not stay to listen. .