
Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva told Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez "I understand you when you say no to war," at the start of a two-day visit to Spain to attend the weekend's In Defence of Democracy summit.
Lula recalled "the horror suffered by Spain" during the Civil War in the 1930s, noting that "several regions of the world are in conflict again" and that "we are witnessing, astonished, a new arms race: women and children are dying, AI is replacing ethics; that is why I completely understand when you say no to war."