Ukrainian president thanks Qatar for its position in returning youngsters ‘forcibly deported’ by Russia through the conflict.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has met Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani throughout a go to to the Gulf nation, voicing gratitude for Doha’s help for Ukraine’s “sovereignty and territorial integrity”.
The Ukrainian president’s journey on Wednesday comes as Kyiv pushes to rally world help to fend off the continued Russian invasion.
Zelenskyy lauded Qatar’s position in “in returning youngsters forcibly deported” by Russia. “We agreed to proceed our cooperation on this space,” he stated in a social media publish.
Kyiv has accused Moscow of seizing hundreds of Ukrainian youngsters and youngsters and taking them to Russia for the reason that starting of the conflict in February 2022.
Russia denies the allegation and says it moved the kids from combating zones out of concern for his or her security.
In Qatar, I met with @TamimBinHamad. I admire Qatar’s help for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, in addition to all key UN resolutions condemning Russian aggression.
It’s important that Qatar helps the Peace Method. We talked about preparations for the… pic.twitter.com/0ZvcPcgLnA
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) June 5, 2024
In March 2023, the Worldwide Prison Court docket (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin over the alleged “conflict crime of illegal deportation of inhabitants (youngsters)” from Ukrainian-occupied areas to Russia.
Qatar has helped dealer offers to reunite some Ukrainian youngsters with their households, together with 16 in April and 6 final month.
Qatar’s Amiri Diwan stated on Wednesday that Sheikh Tamim mentioned the most recent developments with Zelenskyy, together with the “worldwide group’s efforts to finish the combating and defend civilians and holding all communications channels open to resolve the disaster via dialogue”.
It added that the 2 leaders additionally talked about problems with “mutual significance” for the 2 nations.
Zelenskyy is ready to satisfy US President Joe Biden in Normandy, France this week, forward of a world summit on resolving the conflict in Ukraine that can happen in Switzerland later this month.
“Whereas [Biden] is in Normandy, he’ll have the chance to take a seat down with President Zelenskyy and have an engagement with him to speak in regards to the state of play in Ukraine and the way we will proceed and deepen our help for Ukraine,” US Nationwide Safety Advisor Jake Sullivan stated on Tuesday.
Russia launched its all-out invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Ukrainian forces stopped Russia’s advance on Kyiv early within the conflict and pushed again the Kremlin’s troops in some areas. However the battle slowly became a protracted conflict with a lot of the combating happening in japanese Ukraine.
A Ukrainian counteroffensive final 12 months did not make important territorial positive aspects for the nation. In latest weeks, Russia has renewed assaults on town of Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine.
Final week, a number of Western nations, together with the US, stated they gave Kyiv the inexperienced gentle to make use of Western-donated weapons to assault targets inside Russia to assist defend Kharkiv.
