The G20 foreign ministers held their two-day meeting in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro on February 21. The meeting comes in light of an escalating diplomatic crisis between Brazil and Israel.
President Lula da Silva described what Israel is doing to the Palestinian people as “the Holocaust and genocide” The "diplomatic clash" between the two parties prompted Da Silva to summon his ambassador to Tel Aviv against the backdrop of the measures taken by the Israeli Foreign Ministry and the statements that the Brazilian Foreign Minister considered "disgusting"