Lula accuses Trump of wanting to create a "new UN" with him as the "owner"

São Paulo. - The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, accused this Friday the US president, Donald Trump, of wanting to establish a "new UN" with him as "owner", in reference to the Peace Board proposed by the White House to resolve conflicts. "Instead of correcting the UN, as I have been advocating since 2003 (...) with the entry of new countries (to the Security Council), President Trump is proposing to create a new UN in which he alone is the owner," he declared during an event.

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Lula added that the UN Charter "is being torn apart" and multilateralism "thrown to the ground", while the "law of the strongest" prevails, statements that further distance the possibility of Brazil joining the organization led by the US. So far, about twenty nations, some of them led by allies close to Trump, have expressed their support for the initiative, but the major powers and most European countries have been reluctant, considering that the Peace Board weakens the UN. Furthermore, he criticized the plans unveiled this week by Trump at the World Economic Forum in Davos (Switzerland) to build luxury hotel complexes in a Gaza devastated by the war between Hamas and Israel. "They killed more than 70,000 people to say that they are now going to recover Gaza and build a luxury hotel... and the people who died?" he launched. In that sense, the president said that this month he has spoken by phone with several world leaders, such as the presidents of China and Mexico, to see if they can find "a way" to defend multilateralism. Lula stressed that he "does not accept" that Brazil "become a colony again" and defended maintaining relations with both the U.S. and Cuba or China because, according to him, the South American country "has no preferences". "We are living a critical moment in world politics," he affirmed, after citing the recent elections in Chile, Honduras and other countries where the right won. Lula, 80 years old, seeks to run in the elections next October to achieve a fourth term as president.