Brazilian journalist Jamil Chad, writing in the news section for the Brazilian mega-website UOL, says that this is the case. “At the Planalto Palace [the presidential residence], the final text is still under debate and the final arrangements should only be established after the meeting between Presidents Xi Jinping and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, on April 14 in Beijing,” he wrote yesterday.
President Lula had as much as confirmed that report the day before, telling reporters in his April 6 morning press conference: “I am confident that when I return from China … I am going to say that the group which will discuss peace has been created, which is what the world needs.” He told reporters that he wants to sit at the negotiating table with President Xi Jinping on this issue, because “China’s economic, military and political importance and China’s relationship to Russia, and even China’s differences with the United States, give China an extraordinary potential for conversations.”
