Bolsonaro reacts to reports of US strain to drop Russia visit

BRAZIL 04 FEBURARY 2022 (VOE WORLD

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro offered a mysterious remark regarding whether Washington is forcing him to discard a forthcoming visit to Russia, saying he'd love to come to the US assuming that he at any point got a greeting.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro talks during an occasion in Brasilia, Brazil, December 7, 2021. © Getty Images/Stringer

"Brazil will be Brazil, Russia will be Russia. I manage everything well with everybody. When [US President] Joe Biden welcomes me, assuming he welcomes me, I will be satisfied to visit the United States," Bolsonaro told journalists on Thursday.


The president's comments follow a new Brazilian media report proposing US negotiators are planning to get the Moscow meeting dropped, having voiced worries the visit would flag support for Russia on the world stage - specifically its resistance to proceeded with NATO venture into Ukraine and Eastern Europe at large.


Regardless of the detailed US pressure crusade, the three-day visit is as yet set to go on, planned for February 14-17, as per the country's Foreign Ministry. Bolsonaro says he has no designs to raise the Ukraine or NATO issues with authorities in Moscow.

Washington, as far as concerns its, has asserted that it, as well as Brazil, have an obligation to safeguard a "rules-based request" and stand up against claimed "animosity" and infringement of worldwide regulation by Moscow.


For quite a long time a long time, senior US authorities more than once asserted that Russia was arranging an "up and coming" full-scale intrusion of Ukraine, highlighting Russian soldiers amassed at the boundary with its neighbor. Those expectations have since been restrained by the Biden organization, while Russia has demanded up and down that no assault is in progress.


In the midst of the elevated pressures over Ukraine, the Biden group has regardless given a "deadly guide" bundle to Kiev worth countless dollars and positioned around 2,000 fighters in Germany and Poland to reinforce the "current US power presence" in Europe - moves censured as provocative by Russia.

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