Russian President Vladimir Putin "does not rule out" participation in the
G20 summit in New Delhi
in September, "but the decision has not yet been made".
This was stated by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, quoted by the Interfax agency.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on the As for the possibility of a trip by Pope Francis to Moscow, Peskov said he had to "
wait for a statement from the Vatican
".
On Saturday, the pontiff reiterated that he was ready to "go to Kiev, but on the condition that I go to Moscow. "I go to both places or neither," Francis said.
Peskov added that there are "regular contacts" with the Vatican through diplomats: "I have no other information on the matter."
To those who asked him whether the Pope might decide to make a stopover in the Vladivostok region, in the Russian Far East, on the occasion of a trip to Mongolia that could take place this year, Peskov said that "first we need to use the channels diplomats, we await official statements from the Vatican on this matter".
Meanwhile, in a message sent to Bergoglio on the occasion of his ten years of pontificate,
Patriarch Kirill,
head of the Russian Orthodox Church, wrote that "in these difficult times, a dialogue between religious leaders can bear fruit and help unify the efforts of people of good will to heal the wounds of God's creation".
Kirill paid tribute to the contribution made by Francis to the preaching of the Gospel and his attention to interreligious relations, reported the Russian agency Tass.
BEIJING'S MOVES
Chinese leader Xi Jinping plans to speak with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for the first time since the start of the war in Ukraine, probably after his visit to Moscow next week where he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to sources close to the dossier.
The Wall Street Journal writes it.