BRASILIA: President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva departed Brazil on Tuesday (Apr 11) for an official visit to China, where he aims to convince President Xi Jinping to form a group of nations to mediate an end to Russia's war with Ukraine. Lula's visit, postponed from March for health reasons, aims to reset re
BRASILIA: President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva departed Brazil on Tuesday for an official visit to China, where he aims to convince President Xi Jinping to form a group of nations to mediate an end to Russia's war with Ukraine.
When he meets Xi on Friday, Lula has said he will suggest a proposal to mediate peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, an initiative that among Western leaders has only been welcomed by French President Emmanuel Macron. For his initiative to advance, Lula needs China to send a message to Russia, said a European diplomat in Brasilia.
Before arriving in Beijing, Lula will visit Shanghai to attend the inauguration of former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff as head of the New Development Bank set up in 2014 by the BRICS group of major emerging economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. Lula will travel with a delegation of eight cabinet ministers, including Environment Minister Marina Silva, and five governors from Brazil's northeastern states, including Bahia, where a Chinese consortium is building a record-breaking bridge.
Brazilian planemaker Embraer SA may sign a deal for the sale of 20 commercial jets to a Chinese airline, two people familiar with the matter said, ending the company's dearth of new business in China since the 2016 closure of a joint venture at a factory in Harbin.
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