Brazilian senators have created a group to improve relations with the parliament of Ukraine. The motion to create the group was approved in the Senate on Tuesday, and the resolution was published in the Official Gazette on Friday.
Brazil’s Congress has dozens of bilateral relationships with several countries, which do not meet regularly. For example, the Senate’s group on relations with Argentina held its last meeting in March 2020, and the groups in charge of relations with China and the U.S. have not convened since 2019.
However, the groups in charge of relations with Israel, India, and Venezuela have held meetings this year. Similar groups exist in the House.
The motion to create the Brazil-Ukraine group was drafted by Senator Flávio Arns, who hails from the southern state of Paraná — home to the largest number of people of Ukrainian heritage in Brazil. An association of Ukrainian-Brazilians estimates that 600,000 of them live in the country, a large portion of them in the cities of Prudentópolis and Curitiba.
“This is an opportunity for us to bring the countries closer together, to discuss the situations that are common to both countries,” Mr. Arns said on the Senate floor on Tuesday.
In March, a delegation of Ukrainian civil society representatives traveled to Brazil in an effort to rally international support for ending the war with Russia. Their trip was sponsored by the British embassy. After a meeting with them, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s Senate whip, Jaques Wagner, told The Brazilian Report he does not believe that Ukraine can win the war.
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