{"id":567088,"date":"2022-03-10T22:11:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T20:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=567088"},"modified":"2022-03-10T22:11:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T20:11:39","slug":"south-africa-approached-for-mediation-role-on-ukraine-ramaphosa-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/567088\/south-africa-approached-for-mediation-role-on-ukraine-ramaphosa-says\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa \u2018approached\u2019 for mediation role on Ukraine, Ramaphosa says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has been \u201capproached to play a mediation role\u201d in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, president Cyril Ramaphosa said after a telephone conversation with Russian president Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaphosa said on Twitter that he had spoken to Putin to \u201cgain an understanding of the situation that was unfolding between Russia and Ukraine.\u201d He conveyed his belief that the conflict should be resolved through mediation and negotiation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Putin appreciated our balanced approach,\u201d Ramaphosa said on Twitter. \u201cWe believe this position enables both parties to subject the conflict to mediation and negotiation. Based on our relations with the Russian Federation and as a member of BRICS, South Africa has been approached to play a mediation role.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Thanking His Excellency President Vladimir Putin for taking my call today, so I could gain an understanding of the situation that was unfolding between Russia and Ukraine. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jzuWXyIjfL\">pic.twitter.com\/jzuWXyIjfL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cyril Ramaphosa \ud83c\uddff\ud83c\udde6 (@CyrilRamaphosa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CyrilRamaphosa\/status\/1501970612163649539?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for South Africa\u2019s presidency didn\u2019t immediately respond to Bloomberg\u2019s text messages requesting comment.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/567068\/ramaphosa-appoints-zondo-as-south-africas-chief-justice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ramaphosa appoints Zondo as South Africa\u2019s chief justice<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has been \u201capproached to play a mediation role\u201d in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, president Cyril Ramaphosa said after a telephone conversation with Russian president Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":554242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-567088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567088"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567094,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567088\/revisions\/567094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}