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

JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesian President Joko Widodo stated 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 a right away ceasefire.

“Struggle must be stopped and world meals provide chains must be reactivated,” Jokowi, because the president is popularly identified, stated earlier than leaving for Germany to attend the G7 summit on Monday.

The president additionally stated he’ll encourage the G7 nations to hunt peace in Ukraine following Russia’s invasion, and discover a right away resolution to world meals and vitality crises. Russia calls its actions in Ukraine a “particular operation”.

Individually, Indonesian international minister Retno Marsudi stated meals and fertiliser merchandise from Russia and Ukraine must 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 stated in a press release on Sunday.

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

(Reporting by Bernadette Christina and Stanley Widianto; Modifying by Christopher Cushing)