Zelenskiy meets heads of state in Singapore, seeks support for security summit
Zelenskiy met heads of state and legislators in Singapore late on Saturday and early on Sunday, seeking security assistance and support for a peace summit after arriving for a surprise visit to the Shangri-La Dialogue.
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Zelenskiy and his defence minister, Rustem Umerov, had talks with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin for more than an hour on Sunday on the sidelines of the conference.
Austin updated Zelenskiy on Washington's military assistance to Kyiv and «reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to maintaining the strong support» during the meeting, a Pentagon official said after the meeting, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.
«The two leaders pledged to further strengthen the strategic defence partnership between the United States and Ukraine,» the Pentagon official said.
On the social media platform X, Zelenskiy said he had also met Indonesia's president-elect Prabowo Subianto; a delegation from the U.S. Congress; and the president of Timor-Leste, Jose Ramos-Horta.
«It is very important for us to begin the process of establishing a just peace,» Zelenskiy said. "Russia does not want to end the war. Therefore, we must work together with the entire world to bring peace closer."
He said Ramos-Horta had agreed to attend the peace summit, scheduled for mid-June in Switzerland. At last year's Shangri-La Dialogue, Prabowo had proposed an Indonesian plan for ending the war in Ukraine.
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