Indonesian President Joko Widodo conveyed his proposal this Thursday as an intermediary between Russia D Ukraine reach an agreement between the parties on the war in Eastern Europe, initiated by decree of the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin24 February.
The head of the Indonesian state visited Moscow, where he met with his Russian counterpart, to whom he conveyed a message from the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, with whom he also met in Kyiv on Wednesday.
“I conveyed a message from President Zelensky to President Putin and expressed my readiness to establish communication between the two leaders,” Widodo explained, according to the Russian news agency Interfax.
However, the representative Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov, He assured the media that he did not know anything about the content of the said message. “I still don’t know what it’s all about,” the Russian official admitted.
Widodo stressed that peace issues are a priority for the foreign policy of the Asian country, so it was these ambitions that prompted him to move to Kyiv and Moscow to promote a peaceful settlement and promote mutual understanding.
G20 summit
One of the highlights of the news regarding Indonesia is its presidency of the next G20 summit, a meeting to which Widodo invited both Putin and Zelensky, although the presence of both is still unknown.
Although the invitation was initially accepted from Moscow, now Peskov himself has made it clear that the assistance of the Russian president is being appreciated or, conversely, a delegation is being sent on his behalf.
“The president can go himself, or he can delegate someone. There is still time, Russia is participating in the work of the G20. We will make a decision that best suits our interests,” Peskov said, the TASS news agency reported.
That same week, Zelensky also mentioned his presence at the meeting and assured that it would depend both on the security situation in his country and on the leaders who will attend the November summit in Indonesia.
Some international leaders, such as the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnsonasked not to block or harm the development of the summit, except for the representatives of each country who are present at it.
(According to Europe Press)
Source: RPP
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