Ukrainian President Volodomir Zelensky will participate in the G7 leaders’ meeting to be held in June in the Italian region of Apulia (southern), confirmed the Italian Prime Minister and current president of this group, Giorgia Meloni.
(Also read: Ukraine celebrates the authorization of the conditional use of US weapons against Russian territory).
Meloni explained that at the June 13-15 meeting at Borgo Egnazia, a luxury hotel in Savelletri, in the province of Brindisi, in Apulia, in addition to the seven world leaders and Pope Francis, there will be “at least fifteen” countries and international institutions invited to the summit.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during the Munich Security Conference.
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For the moment, the presence of the Argentine president, Javier Milei, has been confirmed; of the President of the Republic of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and the President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Mohamed Bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.
Zelensky traveled to Singapore to participate in the Shangri-La Dialogue defense forum
The Ukrainian president, whose name was not on the agenda provided by the organization initially, will take his turn to speak during the seventh plenary session, titled: “Reimagining Solutions for Global Peace and Regional Stability,” which will take place on Sunday morning.
(Of interest: the United States gives Ukraine permission to attack Russian territory with its weapons and defend Kharkiv).
“Zelensky’s presence at the Shangri-La Dialogue comes at an important time. We eagerly await his comments,” said Bastian Giegerich, director general of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), which organizes the forum, the main one in Asia, in a statement. in matters of Defense.
Among those attending the forum in this edition, the US Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, who spoke this Saturday, and the Chinese Minister of Defense, Dong Jun, who will also participate in the event on Sunday, stand out.
The president of Ukraine, who was in Sweden on an official visit on Friday, has already participated in the 2022 edition of the Shangri-La Dialogue via video conference.
EFE
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