Lula offers times to talk, but Zelenski does not show up
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Entourage says full schedules prevented meeting; Ukrainian and Brazilian only met in a joint session
Hiroshima (Japan) – Around 7 pm on Sunday in Hiroshima, local time, morning in Brazil, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s team informed journalists, who had been waiting for the possible arrival of Volodimir Zelenski since early afternoon, that the meeting between the two would not take place. more, at the G7 summit in Japan.
After Lula’s initial reluctance in the face of the Ukrainian request, made when Zelenski was traveling to Japan, his team says he offered more than one slot on Sunday afternoon, hence the presence of Brazilian journalists — and a Ukrainian flag in the meeting room from the 22nd floor of the Ana Crowne Plaza hotel, where Lula held most of his bilateral meetings.
Their only meeting ended up being in the working session they shared with the other G7 leaders and summit guests, around noon, but they would not have spoken directly. A source, who asked not to be identified, said that now Brazil can no longer be accused of ill will towards the Ukrainian.
Zelenski, throughout the afternoon, met with the President of the United States, Joe Biden, with the Prime Minister of Japan, Fumio Kishida, and later held a press conference.
Lula had previously scheduled meetings with the prime minister of Vietnam, Pham Minh Chinh, with the president of Comoros and the African Union, Azali Assoumani, and with Japanese businessmen. He gives a press conference this Monday morning, local time, and then travels back to Brazil.
*With information from Folha de S.Paulo
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