Papal envoy Zuppi starts 2-day peace mission to Kyiv

Papal envoy Zuppi starts 2-day peace mission to Kyiv

Vatican says mission aimed at listening to Ukraine authorities to explore ways to achieve 'a just peace'

By Giada Zampano

ROME (AA) - Cardinal Matteo Zuppi has started a two-day mission to Kyiv aimed at "easing tensions in the conflict in Ukraine," the Vatican said in statement on Monday, adding that the president of the Italian Bishops' Conference will be in the Ukrainian capital as “Envoy of the Holy Father Francis.”

”This is an initiative whose main purpose is to listen in depth to the Ukrainian authorities about possible ways to achieve a just peace and to support gestures of humanity that will help ease tensions," the Holy See said.

Zuppi’s appointment as the Pope’s peace envoy was disclosed by the Vatican on May 20.

In April, returning from a trip to Hungary, Francis told reporters that the Vatican was involved in a behind-the-scenes peace mission, without providing details. But both Russia and Ukraine said at the time they had no knowledge of the initiative.

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, says it is not a mission that has “mediation as its immediate aim,” but that the objective is to “try above all to favor the atmosphere, to favor an environment that can lead to paths of peace.”

During his visit to Rome in mid-May, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held talks with Pope Francis and met Italian leaders in his first visit to Italy since the start of the war last year in February.

He said was honored to meet the pope, but stressed that since “the war is in Ukraine, it has to be Ukraine's plan" to lead to peace, asking the pontiff to support the 10-point peace platform he has been pushing at an international level.

Kaynak:Source of News

This news has been read 90 times in total

ADD A COMMENT to TO THE NEWS
UYARI: Küfür, hakaret, rencide edici cümleler veya imalar, inançlara saldırı içeren, imla kuralları ile yazılmamış,
Türkçe karakter kullanılmayan ve büyük harflerle yazılmış yorumlar onaylanmamaktadır.
Previous and Next News