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Indonesian president, Joko Widodo, has spoken of his visit to Kyiv to meet with Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, describing the visit as a “manifestation of the Indonesian people’s concern for the situation in Ukraine.”
Sharing a photo of the two leaders to Twitter on Thursday, Widodo said:
The visit to meet President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is a manifestation of the Indonesian people’s concern for the situation in Ukraine.
The spirit of peace never fades. I offered to carry a message from President Zelenskiy for President Putin who I would also visit.
For the first time in all the years of independence, the President of Indonesia, a very influential state that may suffer significantly from the food crisis provoked by Russia, paid a visit to Kyiv today. Therefore, these were important negotiations that opened for Ukraine another strategic direction of relations with Asia.”
We don’t have problems with Sweden and Finland like we do with Ukraine. We don’t have territorial differences.
If Finland and Sweden wish to, they can join. That’s up to them. They can join whatever they want.”
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