As Cardinal Pietro Parolin recalled, "Pope Francis, about a month ago, in a Sunday sermon, called on the President of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, to be more open to a series of peace proposals, because otherwise there is no way out of the current situation."VATICAN City, November 4.
/tass/. Pope Francis has called for serious peace talks on Ukraine. This is stated in his official Twitter on Friday.
"I appeal to everyone to put an end to the war in Ukraine and start serious peace negotiations," the recording says.
The pontiff is on an apostolic trip to Bahrain, where in official speeches he repeated his theses about "the unacceptability of the logic of enmity, confrontation of blocs and the arms race." As Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, recalled in an interview with journalists accompanying the papal delegation, "Pope Francis, about a month ago, in a Sunday sermon, called on Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky to be more open to a series of peace proposals, because otherwise there is no way out of the current situation." "This call is in force," the hierarch added. According to him, there are "small signals" from Moscow. He attributed to them the return of the Russian Federation to participate in the grain deal. "There are small signals, I hope common sense will prevail," the ANSA news agency quotes him as saying.
The Cardinal also said that there is no progress in the issue of involving the Pope in the mediation of the negotiation process between Moscow and Kiev, as proposed by French President Emmanuel Macron, is not observed. "Unfortunately, there are no steps forward, but the Holy See is always ready to help in any form," Parolin added.
As the correspondent of TASS learned from Vatican sources, there is no news about the possibility of a meeting between Francis and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the wish of which the pontiff expressed, nor about contacts with the ROC regarding the organization of a previously postponed meeting with Patriarch Kirill.
