Ukraine’s Zelenskyy says name for peace heard regardless of FIFA denying world handle

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned on Sunday the world nonetheless had heard his name for peace regardless of soccer governing physique FIFA’s choice to say no to permit a video message to be broadcast forward of the soccer World Cup ultimate in Qatar.

Kyiv,UPDATED: Dec 19, 2022 07:37 IST

FIFA had declined to permit a video message of Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to be aired forward of the World Cup ultimate. (Reuters picture)

By Reuters: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned on Sunday the world nonetheless had heard his name for peace regardless of soccer governing physique FIFA’s choice to say no to permit a video message to be broadcast forward of the soccer World Cup ultimate in Qatar.

Zelenskyy had requested for the video to be broadcast, together with his name to carry a worldwide peace convention to assist resolve the warfare triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainian soccer gamers and different officers had publicised the message, he mentioned.

“Even though FIFA blocked this message from being aired at the stadium before the final game in Qatar, the world still heard our appeal,” Zelenskyy mentioned in his nightly video handle to Ukrainians.

The World Cup, he mentioned, was the essence of striving to win.

“But the competition is on the playing field and not on the battlefield. The worst that can happen is a red card – and not the red button,” he mentioned, alluding to the potential for a nuclear strike.

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CNN reported on Friday that Zelenskyy had requested FIFA to let him share a message of peace earlier than the ultimate.

“We offered (a) peace formula to the world. Absolutely fair. We offered it because there are no champions in war, there can be no draw,” Zelenskyy mentioned in a video issued by his workplace.

Russia invaded Ukraine in February, in what it calls a “special military operation”. The battle has killed 1000’s of civilians and displaced thousands and thousands from their properties.

“I announce the initiative to hold a Global Peace Formula Summit this winter. The summit to unite all nations of the world around the cause of global peace. Stadiums’ stands get empty after the match, and after the war cities remain empty,” the Ukrainian president mentioned.

Russian information companies reported that Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin had “warmly congratulated” Argentine President Alberto Fernandez on Argentina’s victory over France within the World Cup ultimate at Doha’s Lusail stadium on Sunday.

Ukrainian presidential aide Mykhailo Podolyak mentioned on Twitter that FIFA “shows a lack of understanding of the disaster that the Russian federation is dragging the world into by starting a war in Ukraine”.

FIFA rejects any political messages in organising World Cup matches.

The world tv viewers for Sunday’s ultimate was anticipated to have been within the lots of of thousands and thousands.

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Devika Bhattacharya

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Dec 19, 2022