Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is ready to come to Latin America to meet with the leaders of states in the region.
“It is very difficult for me to do this during the war. But I am ready. I asked: let’s make my meeting with the leaders of your continent. I’m ready to fly in, I want to communicate with them. Your people, your society trusts its leaders. And if I talk to you, if I stay with you, we will see in detail who Putin is and that he is not so great,” he said in an interview with Latin American media published by the Ukrainian presidential office on Saturday.
“If you don’t have the opportunity to come to us, that’s okay, I don’t have a crown, and I’m a very simple man, you’ll have me. Let’s talk our steps forward together,” the president said
In his view, if these countries are not willing to provide weapons to Ukraine, they could support “the Formula of Peace, support people, humanitarianly.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky believes it is important for the country to have meaningful relations with the entire region. Southeast Asia and with every state in the region.
In a video address on Monday, noting a telephone conversation with the president of the Philippines, he said that “Ukrainian diplomacy has a clear task – to reach out to all regions of the world, where our position is not yet sufficiently represented, to make Ukraine and Ukrainian interests understandable to all those states and peoples with whom we do not yet have stable relations.”
“This applies to Asian directions as well as to Africa and Latin America,” he said.
The next strategic document to be adopted by the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry in 2023 will be the Latin American Strategy, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said.
“We have heard a signal from the Brazilian side, we will actively work with them. As well as with other countries of this region. And in general this year Latin America will be a priority for us. This is the last region of the world that we haven’t plowed over thoroughly,” Kuleba said during an online briefing on Wednesday.
The Minister explained that the visit of the Ukrainian delegation to Brazil, where the inauguration ceremony of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was held on January 1, demonstrates Ukraine’s interest in resetting the Ukrainian-Brazilian dialogue and giving an additional impetus to the trade and economic relations.
Thus, Kuleba recalled that the MFA already has an “Asian strategy” and “African strategy”, which are being implemented. The next strategic document to be adopted by the Foreign Ministry this year will be the Latin American strategy, the minister stressed.
“You will see a powerful return of Ukraine to the space of South America this year. Stay tuned, President Zelensky is paying a lot of attention to this issue,” he added.
Biopharma pharmaceutical company is mulling the possibility of building fractionation plants in Latin America and Africa, co-owner of the company Kostiantyn Yefymenko has said.
“Our next project will be the construction of a blood fractionation plant on other continents. We are now considering Latin America and Africa,” he said during a discussion at the Kyiv International Economic Forum.
Yefymenko noted that currently Biopharma chooses “between Egypt and Nigeria.”
“We associate this with the political situation in both countries. Our next investment will be the expansion of the business of blood plasma fractionation and the construction of plasma centers in these countries,” he said.
Biopharma is a Ukrainian biotechnology company, the only plant in Eastern Europe that has modern technologies, and has been producing and developing medicines from donated plasma for almost 50 years.
The company is focused on providing Ukraine with medicines and supplies its products to more than 30 countries of the world on a contractual basis. In the autumn of 2019, Biopharma moved its production to a new scientific and production complex in Bila Tserkva.
The company is developing a network of its own plasma centers. Now they work in Sumy, Shostka, Konotop, Cherkasy, Dnipro and Kharkiv.
