Ukraine Struggles to Court Global South Before Swiss Summit
- Brazil, China offered competing proposal for talks with Russia
- US response to Israel-Hamas war fuels perceptions of hypocrisy
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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva stopped off in Switzerland on Thursday. He won’t be returning for a summit on Ukraine 48 hours later.
Brazil’s government said that the president was attending an International Labor Organization meeting in Geneva before traveling on the same day to the Group of Seven in Italy. Officials were at pains to stress that the timing of his visit was purely coincidental and was not meant as an affront to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.