The United States respected the initiative of the Pope to meet with Putin

US President Joe Biden will respect all travel and meetings of the Pope, including in the case of negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said during a briefing. The broadcast was on YouTube.

“I did not discuss this issue with him, but I believe that he will respect the decision of the Pope to make any trips and events of his choice,” Psaki said (quoted by RIA Novosti).

According to the Russian ambassador to the Vatican Alexander Avdeev, the dialogue with the HEAD of the Catholic Church is important for Moscow, he called Francis "a welcome interlocutor."

The Moscow Patriarchate heard the “incorrect tone” from the Pope Society

Francis announced his desire to meet with the Russian president in Moscow in early May. According to him, the Vatican sent a corresponding proposal to the Kremlin back in March, 20 days after the start of the Russian military operation in Ukraine. At the same time, the answer, according to the head of the Catholic Church, has not yet been received. “We are still insisting [on a meeting], although I am afraid that Putin cannot and does not want to have this meeting right now,” the Pope said.

Francis noted that after the start of the Russian operation in Ukraine, he spoke with the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, during the conversation, he read out to him the reasons for Moscow's actions for 20 minutes. “I listened and told him: I don’t understand anything about this. Brother, we are not state clergy, we cannot use the language of politics, only the language of Jesus,” he said.

The pontiff also indicated that he was not yet ready to go to Kyiv, he sent Cardinal Michael Czerny and Cardinal Konrad Kraevsky to the capital of Ukraine.

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In response to the words of the pontiff, the Kremlin reported that there were no agreements regarding the meeting between Putin and Francis. The representative of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, did not respond to a request to assess the need for their meeting.

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