The President of the United States, Joe Biden, discussed with Italian cardinal Matteo Zuppi the efforts of the Vatican to mediate in the Ukrainian war.
Zuppi, who is Pope Francis’ special envoy to address the situation in eastern Europe, visited the White House, where he explained to the US president the Holy See’s initiatives to provide humanitarian aid to the region, the White House reported in a statement.
In turn, Washington stressed, Zuppi spoke with Biden about the Vatican’s interest in “the return of Ukrainian minors” who have been forcibly displaced” by the war.
Zuppi, chosen by the Pope to try to mediate in the war in Ukraine, as well as to obtain the return of the Ukrainian children deported to Russia, has already visited Kiev and later Moscow, without having obtained results for the moment.
The Italian cardinal, with a long history in mediating conflicts together with the Catholic movement of the Community of Sant’Egidio, met in the Russian capital with the assistant to the president of the Russian Federation for foreign policy affairs Yuri Ushakov and the presidential commissioner for the Rights of the Child in Russia, Maria Lvova-Belova.
With information from Efe.
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Source: La Opinion
