🇧🇷🤝🇦🇷🇦🇪🇸🇦 — 📰 UOL: Lula defends the expansion of Brics, with criteria such as economic strength

• Despite the cautious position of Brazilian diplomacy with the expansion of the Brics -- a group formed by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa --, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva stated that he defends the integration of new countries, within the criteria which will be defined at the summit at the end of this month.

• Brazilian diplomacy, as Reuters showed, is reticent in relation to the expansion. There is a fear of losing relative space in the bloc and that the Brics will end up being used as a force against the G7, which is not a traditional position of Brazil, more conciliatory.

• Sources heard by Reuters admit, however, that it is a minority position (within Brazilian diplomacy) and that Brazil will negotiate, as is its tradition, to try criteria that take into account the Brazilian concern. Among them, the defense of global governance reform and regional parity criteria.

• In defending the expansion, Lula said he wanted a strong bloc, with a strong bank, that could "help the countries".

• Noteworthy that Brazil also participated in the last G7 meeting, in Japan, as a guest country, and is a member of the G20, a group in which discussions have been prioritized, as well as in the Brics.

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🇧🇷🇺🇳🗳 — 📰 G1 (May 20, 2023): In G7 session, Lula defends UN Security Council reform and criticizes 'antagonistic blocs'

— During the G7 Session back in May 2023, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva spoke at a working session of the G7, in Hiroshima, Japan. During his speech, the Brazilian President criticized the formation of "antagonistic blocs" and defended the reform of the Council of UN security.

• Lula participated in the meeting called "Working Together to Face Multiple Crises". During the speech, the president recalled that this is the seventh time he has been invited to the G7 meeting, which brings together the United States, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Canada.

• "The World Trade Organization remains paralyzed. Nobody remembers the Development Round. The challenges accumulated and got worse. With each threat we fail to face, we generate new urgencies," he said.

• Lula took the opportunity to defend a reform of the UN Security Council, with the accession of new permanent members.
https://archive.is/eI7M3

• Interestingly, such a position in favor of a UN Security Council reform was pursued by his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, with support from the United Kingdom and Russia.
https://archive.is/ZHnAT

🇧🇷🇺🇳🗳 — 📰 Brazilian Report (September 21, 2022): Biden Signals support for Latin American seats on UN Security Council
— "U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday expressed his support for a reform of the UN Security Council, adding permanent seats for African and Latin American countries. For decades, Brazil has sought a permanent seat at the UN’s top body.

• “The U.S. supports increasing the number of both permanent and non-permanent representatives of the Council. This includes permanent seats for those nations we’ve long supported and permanent seats for countries in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean,” Mr. Biden said before the UN General Assembly.

• Mr. Biden did not name specific countries that could be assigned the new permanent seats. In 2004, Brazil, Germany, India, and Japan formed a group known as G4 — which bid collectively for the expansion of permanent and non-permanent seats. Foreign ministers of the group’s participants will hold a meeting this week in New York.

• Brazil and Japan are the countries that have been elected the most times to a rotational seat at the council: on 11 occasions each. Brazil is currently serving the 2022-2023 term and in July held the body’s rotational presidency.

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https://archive.is/8l2mR

🇧🇷🤝🇺🇸 — 📰 Poder360 (July 28, 2023)): Lula wants meeting to discuss climate issue, says Biden
— "The President of the United States, Joe Biden, said this Friday (July 28, 2023) that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) expressed his desire to meet “soon” to address issues related to the climate. The information is from Reuters.

• “Lula from Brazil wants to meet with me soon because you know that there is more carbon absorbed from the air in the Amazon than all the carbon admitted to the United States annually,” Biden said at a campaign event, without saying when the meeting would take place.

• To CNN, Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that it plans a meeting between the two chief executives for September during the week in which the UN General Assembly takes place.

• In February of this year, Lula met with Biden on a visit to the White House. It was the 1st meeting between the Brazilian leftist leader and the American Democrat. On the occasion, they discussed Brazil's relationship with the US government, the economic agenda and the climate issue and environmental preservation.

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https://archive.is/201OW

🇺🇸🤝🇻🇪 — 📰 Molotov News: The Mayor of Miami declared August 12 as "Juan Guaidó Day".

"We declare August 12, 2023 as the day of President Juan Guaidó in the city of Miami Beach." Dan Gelber - Mayor of Miami.
https://t.me/worldconflicts/21068

🇵🇰❌🇵🇰🇨🇳❗️ — On social medias, the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) claimed the attack, stating that it was carried by 2 “fidayeen”* members of BLA's Majeed Brigade

The separatist guerrilla spokesperson 'Jeeyand Baloch' claims it was part of the Operation Zirpahazag, focused on targetting VIP members of a "Chinese Invader's Colony" in "Occupied Gwadar"

The separatist guerrillas claim that the attack was "successful", with the official declaration of the same group claiming that "at least 4 Chinese nationals and 9 Pakistani Security Forces were killed or injured", with both attackers taking their own lives during the attack to avoid capture

* - fidayeen are the term for those who carry suicide attacks or attacks in which the attackers will likely die conducting it

🇨🇳❌🇵🇰 — 📰 Chinese State Media, Global Times on Twitter:

— "The Chinese Consulate-General in Karachi strongly condemned such act of terrorism as a Chinese project convoy in Gwadar Port on Sunday was attacked by roadside bombs and gunfire, demanding the Pakistani side severely punish the culprits and take practical and effective measures to ensure the safety of Chinese citizens, institutions, and projects."

🔗 Global Times (@globaltimesnews)