Lula’s advisor opposes Venezuela’s entry into the Brics

The advisor for international affairs of the Brazilian government, former foreign minister Celso Amorim, declared against Venezuela’s entry into the group of emerging economies Bricsof which Brazil, China and Russia, among others, are part.

«I do not defend the entry of Venezuela. I think you have to go slowly. There is no point in filling (the Brics) with countries, otherwise a new G-77 will soon be created,” said the president’s advisor Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in statements to CNN Brazil.

Amorim on the entry of new members into the Brics

Amorim, who this Monday met with the Brazilian president, convalescing after suffering a domestic accident, pointed out that the entry of new members to the forum “It has to be very well studied” in a “polarized and multipolar” global context.

«You have to have a strategic conception of admissions. Remember that the world is experiencing wars with the potential to become world wars. So the admission criteria are more important than the country itself,” he said.

Asked about Venezuela, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mauro Vieira, who heads the Brazilian delegation that will participate this week in the summit of Brics leaders, in Kazan (Russia), told journalists that “all candidate countries have options” to be part of the group.

Among the States that publicly expressed their interest in joining the forum, made up of nine countries, are Cuba, Venezuela, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Malaysia, among others.

Relations between Brazil and Venezuela after the presidential elections

Brazil and Venezuela have distanced themselves from the elections held in the country on July 28in which the Venezuelan electoral authorities declared Nicolás Maduro victorious, a result questioned by the international community.

Lula has not recognized either Maduro’s victory or that of the opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutiaexiled in Spain, and has insisted from the beginning on the publication of the electoral records in a breakdown, something that the Venezuelan authorities have not done.

The Brazilian progressive leader has tried without success to mediate between the parties, together with the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, in favor of the dissemination of these minuteswhich the opposition made public on the Internet with a result largely favorable to González Urrutia.