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Sudan Events – Sumaya Sayed\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n US top diplomat Antony Blinken was meeting President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday, amid a diplomatic spat after the Brazilian leader likened Israel\u2019s war in Gaza to the Nazi genocide during World War Two.<\/p>\n US officials have said they expect Lula and Secretary of State Blinken to have a robust conversation on issues of global security, including the conflict in Gaza sparked by attacks in southern Israel by Hamas militants on Oct. 7.<\/p>\n Israel said on Monday that Lula is not welcome in Israel until he takes back the comments.<\/p>\n State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Tuesday that Washington disagreed with Lula\u2019s comments, but declined to preview what Blinken would say in the meeting on the issue.<\/p>\n Lula\u2019s comments came after he visited the Middle East last week and just ahead of a meeting of foreign ministers in Rio de Janeiro as part of Brazil\u2019s presidency of the G20 group of advanced economies.<\/p>\n Washington, which provides Israel with military and diplomatic support, has urged Israel to protect civilians but defended Israel\u2019s right to target Hamas militants in the Gaza strip.<\/p>\n Ahead of Blinken\u2019s travel to South America, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Brian Nichols told reporters that sharing ideas on the conflict in Gaza would be \u201ccrucial to the conversation\u201d between Lula and Blinken.<\/p>\n The two would also discuss efforts to promote democracy in Venezuela, a US-Brazil partnership on workers\u2019 rights and cooperation on transitioning to clean energy, Nichols said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sudan Events – Sumaya Sayed\u00a0 US top diplomat Antony Blinken was meeting President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday, amid a diplomatic spat after the Brazilian leader likened Israel\u2019s war in Gaza to the Nazi genocide during World War Two. US officials have said they expect Lula and Secretary of State Blinken to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14645,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14643\/revisions\/14645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}