US foreign minister Marco Rubio On Saturday, the Vatican said an event location for peace talks in Russia-Ukraine and recorded the long-standing offer of the Holy Chair after Pope Leo XIV sworn personally to personally “all efforts” to end the war.
Rubio spoke to reporters in Rome before meeting Cardinal Matteo Zupi, the Vatican Point -Man in Ukraine, about potential opportunities on how the Vatican could help, “the status of the conversations, the updates after yesterday (Friday) and the way forward.”
When asked whether the Vatican could be a peace broker, Rubio replied: “I wouldn’t call it broker, but it is certainly – I think it is a place where both sides would feel comfortable.”
“So we will speak to the Vatican about all this and obviously always grateful for their willingness to play this constructive and positive role,” he said in the US message in Rome.
The Vatican has a tradition of diplomatic neutrality and had offered its services for a long time to try to make the conversations easier, but found out during the all-out war on February 24, 2022.
Pope Francis, who often annoyed both sides with his comments, had entrusted the mandate to find peace paths. But the mandate seemed to be committed to facilitating the return of Ukrainian children from Russia, and the Holy Stuhl was also able to convey some prisoners.
Leo, who was voted the first American Pope of History on May 8, took up Francis’ call to peace in Ukraine on his first Sunday at noon. He appealed to all sides to do everything to achieve “an authentic, just and permanent peace”.
Leo, who called Bishop in Peru in Russia as a “imperialist invasion”, swore personally this week, “to make all efforts so that this peace.
In a speech before the Catholics of the Eastern Ritus, including the Greek Catholic Church of Ukraine, Leo Warring Sides asked and negotiated.
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“The Holy Chair is always ready to face enemies to speak to each other so that people find hope everywhere and the dignity they deserve to restore peace,” he said.
The State Secretary of the Vatican, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, repeated the offer of the Vatican as an event location for direct discussions, and said that the failure of negotiations in Istanbul to achieve a ceasefire this week was “tragic”.
“We had hoped that it could start a process of a peaceful solution to the conflict, slowly but positive,” said slogan on the sidelines of a conference. “But instead we are back to the beginning.”
The specifically asked what such an offer would bring with it, said parolin that the Vatican could serve as an event location for a direct meeting between both sides.
“You would aim to do this at least that you will talk. We’ll see what happens. It is an offer of a place,” he said.
“We always said, repeated on the two sides we are available to you with all the discretion,” said Parolin.
The Vatican achieved perhaps the greatest diplomatic performance of the Francis Pontificate when he facilitated the conversations between the United States and Cuba in 2014, which led to the resumption of diplomatic relationships.
The Holy Chair also often organized far fewer secret diplomatic initiatives, for example when it brought together the rival leaders of South Sudan in 2019. The encounter was famous by the image of Francis to kiss her feet to ask her to close peace.
Perhaps the most critical diplomatic initiative of the Holy Lake came during the highlight of the Cuban rocket crisis when the Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev ordered a secret use of nuclear missiles in Cuba in Cuba in autumn 1962, which were soon discovered by US espiona -frug were discovered.
When the Kennedy government examined its reaction, with Pope John XXIII. In a public radio address in a speech in front of the Vatican, Ambassador pleaded for peace and also wrote to Kennedy and Khruschow to stop their love for their people to get up.
Many historians have attributed John XXIIIS Appeals to withdraw both sides from the edge of the nuclear war.
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