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Jokowi, Zelensky talk Ukrainian food exports, peace
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President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo and First Lady Iriana get ready to board the presidential aircraft that would take them to Moscow on June 30, 2022. (The Jakarta Post/Twitter/Jokowi)
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resident Joko “Jokowi” Widodo met with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the Mariinsky Palace, Kyiv, on Wednesday, in a visit to the war-ravaged country to talk of peace and the impact the war has had on the global food supply chain.
During the joint press conference after a meeting between the two presidents, Jokowi said that his visit to Ukraine showed that the Indonesian people cared about what happened in Ukraine.
“I told President Zelensky that my visit here is as a manifestation of Indonesia’s concerns over the situation in Ukraine,” Jokowi said on Wednesday.
Ahead of the visit, the President had said that his mission was to seek an end to the Russia-Ukraine war, which has caused food shortages and surging commodity prices around the world.
In Wednesday’s statement Jokowi reiterated Ukraine’s importance to the global food supply chain.
“It is important for all stakeholders to provide safety for Ukrainian food exports, including from seaports. I support what the United Nations has done to support this,” he said.
On the peace-seeking front, Jokowi stressed that Indonesia’s position was firm in that sovereignty and territorial integrity of a country must be respected, and even though peace might be hard to achieve, it was important that the conflict ended in a peaceful resolution and the spirit of peace should never fade.
