President Joe Biden sits with the President of Comoros, Azali Assoumani, Brazil’s President, Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva, and Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau during a G7 working session on food, health and development during the G7 Summit in Hiroshima, Japan, Saturday, May 20, 2023. Susan Walsh/Pool via REUTERS
HIROSHIMA, Japan — Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Monday that a meeting with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on the sidelines of the Group of Seven (G7) summit in Japan fell through because Zelenskiy was late.
“I had an interview, a bilateral one with Ukraine here in this room at 3:15 p.m. We waited and received the information that he was late,” Lula said.
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Zelenskiy “did not show up … Clearly he had appointments and he couldn’t come,” Lula said.
Zelenskiy had earlier played down the fact he did not meet with Lula.
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