The president of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, indicated this Sunday that he seeks reopen the door to dialogue between the governments of Ukraine and Russia to put an end to the war started on February 24 with the invasion of Russian troops to the first of those countries.
“The war must stop and the global food supply chain must be revived,” Widodo urged in a speech from Jakarta international airport before leaving for Germany to attend the G7 summit on Monday.
The president of Indonesia, the country that hosts this year’s rotating presidency of the G20, is also scheduled to visit kyiv, where he will meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky, and Moscowwhere on the 30th he will meet President Vladimir Putin.
Widodo, who has invited both presidents to attend the G20 leaders’ summit scheduled for November 11-13 on the island of Bali, declared that he will request an immediate ceasefire and seek a peace agreement through dialogue.
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In Germany, the Asian leader will also encourage the countries that make up the Group of Seven to find immediate solutions to establish peace in Ukraine and the global food and energy crisis resulting from this war.
For her part, the Indonesian Foreign Minister, Retno Marsudi, separately stressed on June 26 the need to secure corridors for the export of Ukrainian grain and open food and fertilizer exports from Russia.
“All countries must refrain from actions that further exacerbate this food crisis,” Marsudi stressed.
Despite the pressure received from countries such as the United States, Canada and Australia for Putin to be vetoed at the summit that brings together the 20 largest economies in the world, Indonesia has so far maintained the invitation to the Russian president.
Last April, the Indonesian president, popularly known as Jokowi, extended the invitation to the G20 to President Zelenski and stated that Indonesia is prepared to “contribute to the peace effort.”
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Finance officials from the European Union (EU), the United States, France and Canada, among other countries, walked out of a G20 meeting in Washington on April 20 to protest Russia’s presence and invasion of Ukraine.
The representatives left the meeting that was being held in a hybrid format in the US capital just as Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov began to speak.
Russia was already expelled last decade from the group of industrialized economies then known as the G8, which was renamed the G7, after its invasion of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula in 2014.
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