Thu 30 June 2022:
On Thursday, Indonesian President Joko Widodo said he delivered a message from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“I conveyed President Zelensky’s message to President Putin,” Widodo said after talks with the Russian president in comments translated into Russian. Widodo said he expressed his “readiness” to help start “communication” between the two leaders.
He didn’t say anything else, and neither side revealed what was in the note.
Widodo was in Kyiv on Wednesday before heading to Moscow to meet Putin, who sent troops into pro-Western Ukraine on February 24.
“Although the external situation is still difficult, it is still important to move towards a settlement and open dialogue,” Widodo said in Moscow.
“It is important to move towards a peaceful resolution of the conflict in Ukraine,” he said, adding that the country will be continuing to cooperate with Russia.
He said that his country would like “the war to end soon”.
“I call on all world leaders to revive the spirit of cooperation,” Widodo added.
Putin called his talks with Widodo “productive” on Thursday.
“I am convinced that the agreements reached today will further strengthen the Russian-Indonesian partnership,” Putin added.
After announcing in April that Putin had been invited, Jakarta has come under Western pressure to exclude him from the G20 summit.
Ukraine’s Zelensky informed Widodo on Wednesday that, depending on who else attends, he will attend the upcoming G20 summit in Bali.
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