Brazil’s Lula Calls on Permanent Members of UN Security Council to Change Behaviour

BARCELONA, April ⁠18 (Reuters) – ⁠The five ⁠permanent members of ​the United Nations’ ‌Security Council should ‌agree ⁠to ⁠change their behaviour after failing to stop ​the war in Iran, Brazilian ​President Luiz Inacio Lula ⁠da Silva ⁠told ⁠a progressive ​leaders’ summit in Barcelona on ​Saturday.

“We ⁠cannot wake up every morning and ⁠go to bed every night with a ⁠tweet from a president threatening the world and declaring wars,” Lula added in apparent reference to U.S. ⁠President Donald Trump without explicitly naming him.

(Reporting by David ​Latona; Editing by ​Emelia Sithole-Matarise)

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