“Peace is not a perpetual good, not even in Europe,” said Pope Francis’ mediator for Ukraine

The special envoy of Pope Francisco to mediate in the war UkraineItalian cardinal Matteo Zuppiaffirmed today that “peace is never a perpetual good, not even in Europe”, after returning from Washingtonwhere he met with the US president, Joe Biden.

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“Peace is never a perpetual goodnot even in Europeand being aware of this should encourage you to take responsibilities and decisions”, affirmed Zuppi in statements collected by the local press during a conference in Rome.

The mediator of the Holy See pointed out parallels between the current era and the troubled twentieth centurywhen the position of “all the potatoes” was “bear the pain of war and seek peace by all means”.

However, according to zuppithe policies that marked the reconstruction in the decades after the wars of the last century “were born within the culture”, which is not the case today, since there is a “divorce“Between culture and politics”sometimes ignorant”, with “few visions” and interests “polarized”.

On his last trip as a mediator, the Vatican said Wednesday in a statement that Biden received on Tuesday zuppi with “great cordiality” and “full disposition”.

“The meeting, which lasted more than an hour, took place in an atmosphere of great cordiality and mutual listening. During the meeting, the full willingness to support initiatives in the humanitarian field was ensured, particularly in favor of children and the most fragile people, both to respond to this urgency and to favor paths of peace.”, indicated the Holy See.

Also, it was detailed that zuppi delivered Tuesday to Biden a letter in which the pope Francisco “It underlined the pain for the suffering caused by the war.”

zuppichosen by the pope to attempt mediation in the war of Ukraineas well as to obtain the return of the Ukrainian children deported to Russia, already visited kyiv and then Moscowwithout, for the moment, having obtained results.

In the Russian capital he met with the assistant to the president of the Russian Federation for foreign policy matters Yuri Ushakov and the presidential commissioner for Rights of the Child in Russia, Maria Lvova-Belova.

The visit to Moscow came three weeks after zuppi was in kyivwhere he met with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskywho reiterated that they will not accept any cessation of hostilities that does not involve the Russian withdrawal from their territories.

Source: Elcomercio

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