Macron and Lula show unity on global issues despite differences on Ukraine

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28 March 2024 at 9:19 pm·1-min read

French President Emmanuel Macron and his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday displayed their unity on major global issues, while skirting differences on the war in Ukraine.

Macron wrapped up his three-day tour of the Latin American giant with a solemn, but warm, trip to the presidential palace in the modernist capital Brasilia.

The French leader paid tribute to "the spirit of resistance" of Lula's government for "restoring democracy" after a crowd of extreme-right supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro stormed the seats of power in the city in January 2023.

Lula hailed a relationship between the two countries as one that created "a bridge between the global South and the developed world."

While the two men firmly reset the frosty ties of the Bolsonaro years, they retain deep differences over the war in Ukraine, a subject which only briefly reared its head.

While France and the West support Kyiv wholeheartedly, Lula has in the past said that Ukraine and Russia share responsibility over the conflict and has refused to isolate Moscow.

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"The meaning of this club is that there must be consensus with the 19 others. That will be a job for Brazilian diplomacy," he said.

If such a meeting can be "useful, it must be done," Macron said.

(AFP)

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