Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will propose a “peace club” with China to mediate an end to the conflict in Ukraine when he travels to Beijing this week to meet President Xi Jinping.
The leftwing Brazilian leader is seeking to restore Brazil’s diplomatic clout following the relative isolation of the previous Jair Bolsonaro government, but has resisted aligning with western countries sending weapons to Ukraine to repel Russia’s invasion.
“We are very interested in promoting or helping generate some kind of meeting that would lead to a peace process,” Mauro Vieira, Brazil’s foreign minister, told the Financial Times in an interview.