(22 Apr 2023)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lisbon - 22 April 2023
1. Various of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva being greeted by Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
2. Lula and Rebelo de Sousa standing for photo opportunity and shaking hands
3. Various of official welcome ceremony, including honour guard
4. Lula and Rebelo de Sousa standing outside Jeronimos Monastery
4. Flags
5. Various of Lula and Rebelo de Sousa watching military ceremony
STORYLINE:
Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa welcomed Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to Lisbon on Saturday with an official ceremony outside the 16th-century Jeronimos Monastery.
Lula arrived in Portugal on Friday on a state visit amid heightened tensions with the European Union, following statements suggesting that Kyiv and the West share some responsibility for the conflict in Ukraine.
Earlier in the month, he irked Ukraine, the U.S. and the EU by suggesting that Ukraine should cede Crimea, which Russia seized in 2014, to end the current conflict.
Lula also welcomed Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to Brasilia on Monday.
Lula's trip to Portugal is an opportunity to repair some of the damage to Brazil-EU relations his comments caused, said Guilherme Casarões, a political scientist at the Getulio Vargas Foundation, a think tank and university in Sao Paulo.
As well as meeting Rebelo de Sousa, Lula was expected to meet with Portugal's prime minister this weekend and to appear at a Portugal-Brazil summit with various ministers.
He is also scheduled to attend a Monday prize-giving ceremony for Brazilian musician and writer Chico Buarque.
Lula plans to address Portugal's parliament on Tuesday, which is the anniversary of the 1974 Carnation Revolution that ended nearly a half-century of authoritarian rule in Portugal.
AP Video shot by Helena Alves
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