“What fascinates me most about Brazil is its independent vision in terms of foreign policy, with its strong messages and strong initiatives, such as the Global Alliance Against Poverty and Hunger, the result of Brazil’s presidency of the G20, or the Sino-Brazilian peace plan for Ukraine. We share the same vision when it comes to reforming international organizations, especially the United Nations. We have a lot of common ground on international politics,” Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico told Brazil’s Folha de São Paulo daily, in an interview published Dec. 10.
Fico’s visit to Brazil, the 2025 chair of the BRICS, is precisely the kind of diplomatic initiative, between nations of the West and the Global South, which the Schiller Institute’s Helga Zepp-LaRouche has insisted is urgently required to turn the West away from its current path to global conflagration.
Both Fico and Brazilian Vice President Geraldo Alckmin spoke of their country’s affinity in foreign policy after they met Dec. 10. (President Lula da Silva was unavailable because of emergency surgery earlier that day.)
