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U.S. opposed UN Council meeting organized by Brazil

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Friday’s meeting of the United Nations Security Council met with resistance from the United States and was secured through negotiations between Brazil and UN Secretary-General António Guterres.The U.S. did not want the meeting because they intended to focus their work on the conflict through Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s trip to Israel. The argument, as is usually the case when it comes to the Middle East, was that the conflict has great domestic political appeal.The deaths of two Brazilians and the likely presence of others among the hostages, in addition to those from Gaza, also make the issue relevant to Brazilian politics. The speed with which the country evacuated the Brazilians from Israel only confirms this.That’s why, as a Brazilian diplomat explains, Brazil, as president of the Council this month, could not sit idly by and do nothing. That’s how President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva came to post on Wednesday on the X network, formerly Twitter, with an appeal in defense of Palestinian and Israeli children.The appeal was addressed to Mr. Guterres and the international community, calling on Hamas to release the kidnapped children and for Israel to stop bombing so that Palestinian children and their mothers can leave the Gaza Strip via the border with Egypt.The first to respond was Mr. Guterres, who approached Brazil’s Ambassador to the UN, Sérgio Danese, and said that in light of Mr. Lula’s message, he was ready to make a presentation to the Security Council on the humanitarian situation. The other members agreed to this proposal, and the U.S. relented as long as the meeting was closed.That same day, the President of the United Arab Emirates, Sheik Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, called Mr. Lula up. The UAE is the only Arab country attending this Friday’s meeting. Under the Trump administration, the UAE, along with Bahrain, participated in the Abraham Agreement, brokered by the former president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to bring these countries closer to Israel.Given the UAE’s rapprochement with both the U.S. and Israel, the phone call was seen as a way to gauge how the meeting should be ushered, given that it is a country that has grown closer to Brazil, both through its presence in the BRICS and...

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