It apparently took Rishi Sunak, leading Global Britain, thirty-nine days to have a telephone conversation with Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva after his landmark win in the presidential election in Brazil, Latin America’s largest economy and a sought after trading partner.
Lula, meanwhile, had already spoken to US president Joe Biden, German chancellor Olaf Scholz and Emmanuel Macron, among other world leaders, as well as meeting the French president in Paris, and a host of leading international public figures at Cop27 in Egypt.
