Sérgio Moro: Within the span of a week, we saw Lula visit Argentina and choose, instead of honoring Mercosur agreements, instead of seeking a harmonious relationship with his Argentine counterpart, President Milei, to carry out a childish provocation: he sought out the corrupt Cristina Kirchner, convicted by the Argentine judiciary, a person we all know to have a bad reputation, and went there to embrace her and even pose for ridiculous photos asking for her freedom.
Sérgio Moro: A disrespect to the Argentine judiciary, a disrespect to President Milei, a disrespect to Mercosur.
If we had been left with only that episode, it would already have been embarrassing enough, but in its wake we had the BRICS meeting here in Rio de Janeiro, depleted.
Sérgio Moro: Vladimir Putin did not come. Okay, he has an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court and it would not, in fact, be prudent for him to attend, but the President of China did not come either, nor did other important leaders.
Sérgio Moro: And from that BRICS meeting I did not see any concrete resolution toward a greater rapprochement among those countries; what we saw, moreover, in the statements made at the end of that BRICS meeting was a complete inversion of values, embodied in the point where the BRICS condemned an attack carried out by Ukraine on Russian territory, on civilian infrastructure, in which there were said to have been some civilian victims.