Dialogue must be pursued for peace in
Ukraine but it is important not to confuse the aggressor and the
aggressed, Italian Bishops' Conference President and papal peace
envoy Cardinal Matteo Zuppi said on Sunday.
"There can be no doubt that there is an aggressor and an
aggressed, we cannot play down this fact," said Zuppi at an
event organised by left-wing party Rifondazione Comunista in
Bologna.
"The Pope is right to ask for peace, but without confusing the
aggressor and aggressed. If you do this, the aggressed feels
delegitimised, misunderstood, abandoned," he continued.
In June Zuppi was tasked by the pope with leading a peace
mission on Ukraine that has taken him to Kyiv, Moscow,
Washington DC and most recently Beijing to try to identify
initiatives that might help open up paths to peace.
"We must have the ambition that the injustice created by a
country that occupies another piece of a sovereign country can
be redressed not only using weapons, and that law, guarantees,
justice and security can be guaranteed through commitment to
dialogue," said Zuppi.
"(We need to) Have the ambition that justice can be achieved
with the weapon of law," he concluded.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED © Copyright ANSA
