Indonesia president to visit Ukraine, Russia on peace-building mission

Indonesian President Joko Widodo speaks to the media, as newly inaugurated Commerce Minister Zulkifli Hasan and Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning Hadi Tjahjanto, who was former Indonesia’s navy chief, stand apart from him at a Presidential Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, June 15, 2022. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan

JAKARTA, June 26 (Reuters) – Indonesian President Joko Widodo mentioned on Sunday he’ll urge his Russian and Ukrainian counterparts to open room for dialogue throughout a peace-building mission to the warring nations and ask Russia’s Vladimir Putin to order an instantaneous ceasefire.

“Battle must be stopped and international meals provide chains have to be reactivated,” Jokowi, because the president is popularly recognized, mentioned earlier than leaving for Germany to attend the G7 summit on Monday.

The president additionally mentioned he’ll encourage the G7 nations to hunt peace in Ukraine following Russia’s invasion, and discover an instantaneous answer to international meals and power crises. Russia calls its actions in Ukraine a “particular operation”.

Individually, Indonesian overseas minister Retno Marsudi mentioned meals and fertiliser merchandise from Russia and Ukraine have to be “reintegrated into the worldwide market, regardless of the struggle”.

“It’s essential to safe a grain hall from Ukraine and open meals and fertiliser exports from Russia. All nations should chorus from actions that additional exacerbate this meals disaster,” Marsudi mentioned in an announcement on Sunday.

Indonesia has condemned the struggle and expressed sympathy to Ukrainians. Nonetheless, Jokowi in April mentioned he had declined a request for arms from Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. learn extra

Reporting by Bernadette Christina and Stanley Widianto; Enhancing by Christopher Cushing

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