The Vatican plan recognizes negotiations as the only way to a solution.
Pope Francis has developed a plan for a peaceful settlement of the situation in Ukraine and demands a negotiation, said Leonid Sevastyanov, the president of the World Federation of Russian Orthodox Old Believers, who is in correspondence with the head of the Catholic Church, according to a Monday evening report by the RIA Novosti news agency.
Sevastyanov claimed: the initiative contains the thesis that all parties are equally responsible in all conflicts. The goal of the plan is a long and just peace, and their guarantee is acceptance, respect for the other's culture and language, and cooperation between all parties, including Russia, Ukraine and Europe. As he said
the preservation of human life and health will be a priority, as well as ensuring that outside countries do not participate in the supply of arms to the parties to the conflict.
According to Sevastjnaov, the Pope is proposing the Vatican as the venue for peace negotiations.
"The cause of all wars is selfishness and the lack of willingness to listen to the other side, so in every war, in every conflict, everyone is to blame"
wrote Dostoyevsky.
Reconciliation and mutual forgiveness are fundamental Christian virtues. The Holy See - the Vatican - is a negotiation forum for everyone. Rome is the city of peace! According to the Russian official, the goal of the negotiations is a long and just peace for everyone. As he said, the Vatican plan recognizes negotiations as the only way to resolve the conflict.
Both sides should stop attacking the other, sit at the negotiating table and discuss their positions"
- the official of the Russian Old Faithful Orthodox quoted the Pope, then continued by saying that, according to Pope Francis, the parties involved in the conflict cannot be supplied with weapons by other countries.
On Sunday, also speaking to RIA Novosti, Sevastyanov said that the Pope called for mutual forgiveness and negotiation between Russians and Ukrainians on the Orthodox Sunday of Reconciliation.
On February 15, he told the same news agency that Pope Francis would like to discuss with President Vladimir Putin his plan for a peaceful settlement of the European confrontation between Russia and the West. As he said, the head of the Catholic Church is ready to travel to Moscow for this purpose.
MTI
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