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Ukraine war: Indonesia’s Jokowi says he will urge Putin to order immediate ceasefire during Moscow meeting
- The Indonesian president will meet the leaders of Ukraine and Russia during next week’s peace-building mission to the warring countries
- He will also discuss the ‘reactivation’ of the food supply chain with Ukraine’s Zelensky
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Indonesian President and G20 chairman Joko Widodo set off on Sunday to Europe where he said he plans to visit Russia and Ukraine and meet with the countries’ leaders to urge peace talks.
Widodo departed for Germany to attend as a guest for the G7 summit from June 26 to 27, and he will then go to Ukraine’s capital Kyiv to meet President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“The mission is to ask … President Zelensky to open a dialogue forum for peace, to build peace because the war has to be stopped,” he told a press conference in Jakarta.
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The two leaders will also discuss the food supply chain “that needs to be reactivated” soon, Widodo said. From Kyiv, Widodo is expected to visit Moscow and meet with Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
The visit to Moscow is planned for June 30, Indonesian authorities said earlier.
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“With the same mission, I will ask President Putin to open a dialogue and to immediately have a ceasefire and to stop the war,” he said. Earlier in April, Widodo announced he had called Zelensky and invited him to join world leaders at G20 summit in Bali in November as a guest.
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