Foreign Minister João Gomes Cravinho this Friday criticized the “weird interpretation” of the PKP’s Russian invasion, welcoming the position of the parliamentary majority on Portugal’s support for Ukraine.
At the end of a thematic debate proposed by the speaker of parliament on the situation in Ukraine a year after the start of the conflict, Gomes Cravinho pointed to “fundamental differences” between the government and the communist bench.
“This refusal to face what is happening this year is truly regrettable. It is as absurd as it is caricatured that, in this analysis, Putin’s attack is not an attack on international law, but merely a capitalist conspiracy to, in short, protect extraordinary profits,” complained Cravinho.
And he added: “We could say ‘long live the diversity of our political life’, but I prefer to emphasize that this strange interpretation only demonstrates how deeply a minority of the marginal population of Portugal refuses proper solidarity with Ukraine,” he stressed.
Addressing BE, Cravinho welcomed the “clear condemnation of imperialist militancy” but disagreed with “the caricature in which he portrays the European Union.”
Foreign Minister João Gomes Cravinho said it was “very gratifying” to know that the government’s analysis of the war was “widely shared” by Parliament, praising the intervening deputies, in particular socialist Sergio Souza Pinto, for “brilliant intervention”.
“International life rarely presents us with such a clear case: it is very gratifying to see that the conduct of our foreign policy is backed by so much support in this house,” he concluded.