Lula’s plane will make two stopovers: one in Mexico, where it will land on Wednesday, and another one in Alaska, the United States. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, since 2009, when the former trade unionist himself attended the meeting held in Italy, the Brazilian head of State has not participated in a G7 meeting, which brings together the world’s seven richest economies.

Lula was invited by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

I am going to the G7 Summit and “we are going to address the issue of the Amazon, the energy issue, Ukraine and development in the whole world,” the president said last week on social networks.

He said that he was convinced about “building a mechanism that can bring peace back to the world.”

According to the Japanese government, in addition to the G7 nations (Japan, United States, Germany, France, Italy, Canada, United Kingdom), Brazil, Australia, Comoros, Cook Islands, India, Indonesia, Republic of Korea and Vietnam were invited to the meeting.

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