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Africa's Peace Mission Won't Be Limited to One Trip, South African Foreign Ministry Says
Africa's Peace Mission Won't Be Limited to One Trip, South African Foreign Ministry Says
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The presidents of Zambia, Comoros, Senegal, South Africa, Egypt's prime minister, and envoys from the Republic of Congo and Uganda were among the seven African... 20.06.2023, Sputnik Africa
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The peace mission of African countries to find ways to resolve the Ukrainian crisis is not an isolated event, it's a process, and it will not end after one trip, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of South Africa Naledi Pandor stated on Tuesday. The minister expressed the South African government's hope that the process will expand and strengthen, to include new countries and organizations, primarily the UN.Pandor stressed that the talks held in St. Petersburg and Kiev with the Presidents of Russia and Ukraine were promising.On behalf of six African nations, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa presented Putin and Zelensky with a peace initiative on May 16. The two leaders agreed to host the delegation of the African heads of state in both Moscow and Kiev.Jean-Yves Olivier, the founder of the Brazzaville Foundation and the mission's initiator, had previously told Sputnik that the mission's primary objective is to begin and aid in the establishment of a dialogue between the two nations. He added that negotiations through the mission of African countries would take place without preconditions and that the mission is the first of its kind that both Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart have agreed to accept.
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Africa's Peace Mission Won't Be Limited to One Trip, South African Foreign Ministry Says
14:41 20.06.2023 (Updated: 10:43 03.08.2023) The presidents of Zambia, Comoros, Senegal, South Africa, Egypt's prime minister, and envoys from the Republic of Congo and Uganda were among the seven African leaders and top representatives that traveled to Kiev on June 16 to meet with Volodymyr Zelensky. Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed the group the next day in St. Petersburg, Russia.
The peace mission of African countries to find ways to resolve the Ukrainian crisis is not an isolated event, it's a process, and it
will not end after one trip, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of South Africa Naledi Pandor stated on Tuesday.
The minister expressed the South African government's hope that the process will expand and strengthen, to include new countries and organizations, primarily the UN.
Pandor stressed that the talks held in St. Petersburg and Kiev with the Presidents of Russia and Ukraine were promising.
On behalf of six African nations, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa
presented Putin and Zelensky with a peace initiative on May 16. The two leaders agreed to host the delegation of the African heads of state in both Moscow and Kiev.
Jean-Yves Olivier, the founder of the Brazzaville Foundation and the mission's initiator, had previously told Sputnik that the mission's primary objective is to begin and aid in the establishment of a dialogue between the two nations.
He added that negotiations through the mission of African countries would take place without preconditions and that the mission is the first of its kind that both Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart have agreed to accept.
