The unidentified government sources claimed to various outlets — including Brazil’s UOL, O Globo, and Globonews, as well as Reuters, and the BBC — that Lula will travel to the United States on Wednesday meet with Trump at the White House on Thursday morning. At press time, there is no official public confirmation on Lula’s reported travel from either the White House or the Planalto presidential palace.
According to O Globo, the reported meeting was agreed upon between Lula and Trump in a phone call last week that was not publicly disclosed by ether government. A prospective Lula visit to the White House was first discussed between both heads of state during a January phone call during which the Brazilian president expressed his intention to hold an “eye-to-eye” meeting with Trump. At the time, the visit was slated to take place at some point during March after Lula had finished visiting India and South Korea. That encounter, however, was postponed following the start of the war in Iran in late February.
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