"It is irresponsible not to seek peace," said Amorín.

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The former foreign minister of Brazil and current

foreign policy adviser to presidential candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Celso Amorim, who also served as defense minister, maintains that the sanctions against Russia, promoted by the US, are a mistake. policy that increases the risk of nuclear war.

In an interview with Bloomberg published this Friday, Amorim assured that if Lula wins the elections, Brazil will not support that approach, and warned of the dangers of isolating an economy "as large and strategic" as Russia's.

"It is irresponsible not to seek peace," Amorim declared.

"For the first time since the Cuban missile crisis we see articles on the risk of nuclear weapons being published on a weekly basis," he declared, adding that "it is irresponsible not to seek peace."

In addition, he pointed out that the sanctions also strengthen ties between Russia and China, confessing that although he has nothing against Beijing — "we are all part of the BRICS" — he does not understand what is the US interest in the consolidation of relations between these powers.

In another recent interview with the Reuters agency, Amorim stated that if Lula became president, he would be willing to reopen talks on the trade agreement between Mercosur and the European Union

, which is paralyzed due to demands from the European bloc for it to be take concrete actions to reduce deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon.

(Taken from Russia Today)