Israel x Hamas: After conversation with Lula, Vieira goes to the USA for Brazil’s “final effort” at the UN Security Council

After a conversation with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), Chancellor Mauro Vieira embarks this Sunday afternoon (29) to participate in this Monday’s (30) meeting of the United Nations Security Council (UN), in Nova York.

The Foreign Minister’s departure to the United States is a “final effort” by Brazil as president of the council to try to reach a consensus on the conflict between Israel and Hamas.

In a meeting with Lula on Saturday (28), Vieira presented to the president an overview of the conversations he had last week in New York and an overview of Brazil’s current negotiations with the bloc of ten non-permanent members of the collegiate for a new proposal for resolution on the war.

Although Brazil arrives at the UN Security Council with what is classified within Itamaraty as “realistic expectations”, Lula and Vieira understood that it was worth the effort, on the eve of the end of the Brazilian Presidency in the collegiate — which ends on Tuesday ( 31).

According to reports made to CNN Brazil’s negotiation for a new resolution in the collegiate, after four failed texts, was driven by requests made directly to Vieira, last week.

One of them came from the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric, with whom the Brazilian chancellor was on the sidelines of the Security Council meeting program. Similar requests were made to Vieira by Germany, Jordan and Palestine itself.

The UN Security Council has 15 members, ten of which rotate and five have permanent seats: the United States, Russia, China, France and the United Kingdom. Permanent members have veto power over the body’s resolutions.

At this moment, Brazil’s effort is to reach a consensus with a bloc of non-members to try to avoid vetoes, mainly from the USA and Russia. The failed attempts, however, show a very difficult scenario for the approval of a resolution.

So far, two resolutions have been suggested by Russia, vetoed by the United States; one from Brazil, which had the greatest support, but was also vetoed by the Americans; and one from the United States, vetoed by the Russians.