Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and President Lula da Silva’s Special Foreign Policy Advisor Celso Amorim spoke by telephone for nearly an hour on Jan. 22. According to the readout from China’s Xinhua agency from and the report in Brazil’s Folha de São Paulo, their discussion was broad ranging, and carried out in the spirit of the agreement reached by the two Presidents when they met in Brasilia on last Nov. 20 to build a Brazil-China community with a shared future for a more just world and more sustainable planet.
Wang offered Brazil China’s full support for its presidency of the BRICS this year and for its “pushing for new achievements in greater BRICS cooperation.” Amorim, in turn, agreed with Wang on the importance of the 10th anniversary of the China-CELAC Forum which will be held in Beijing mid-year; CELAC is the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.
Both also discussed their organizing around the joint six-point proposal of the principles on which a peaceful end to the Ukraine-Russia conflict has to be based, which the two officials had issued on May 23, 2024. Xinhua reported that Amorim told Wang that the two sides should seize the opportunity to further leverage the role of the “Friends of Peace” platform formed later in support of the Chinese-Brazilian six-point perspective. Amorim told Folha afterwards that, in his view, the Chinese-Brazilian proposal “is more and more timely, to avoid radical positions.”