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<\/div>\n– Advertisement –<\/span> Cape Town \u2013 President Cyril Ramaphosa has confirmed his discussion with Ukraine leader Volodymyr Zelensky.<\/p>\n This comes after Zelensky had revealed on Wednesday that he had a telephone discussion with Ramaphosa over the situation in Ukraine.<\/p>\n On Thursday, Ramaphosa said he had a call with the Ukraine president.<\/p>\n \u201cI had a telephone conversation with President @ZelenskyyUa of Ukraine to discuss the conflict in Ukraine and its tragic human cost, as well its global ramifications. We agree on the need for a negotiated end to the conflict which has impacted Ukraine\u2019s place in global supply chains, including its position as a major exporter of food to our continent. President Zelenskyy anticipates closer relations with Africa in future,\u201d said Ramaphosa.<\/p>\n Ramaphosa has been calling for talks between Russia and Ukraine to end the conflict.<\/p>\n He has said the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres\u2019s office should also be involved in those discussions for a ceasefire and an end to the war.<\/p>\n The opposition had been accusing Ramaphosa of not talking to Zelensky when he had spoken to Russian leader Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n This was after Ramaphosa had confirmed a few weeks ago that he had spoken to Putin on the conflict in Ukraine.<\/p>\n He later had another telephone discussion with US President Joe Biden and the president of China, Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n Ramaphosa had said he had reaffirmed his commitment to the peaceful solution to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.<\/p>\n The government had also said it had good trade relations with the two countries.<\/p>\n [email protected]<\/p>\n Current Affairs <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" – Advertisement – Cape Town \u2013 President Cyril Ramaphosa has confirmed his discussion with Ukraine leader Volodymyr Zelensky. This comes after Zelensky had revealed on Wednesday that he had a telephone discussion with Ramaphosa over the situation in Ukraine. On Thursday, Ramaphosa said he had a call with the Ukraine president. \u201cI had a telephone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1063544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3894],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1063543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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