(ANSA-AFP) - FRANKFURT AM MAIN, MAR 11 - German Foreign
Minister Annalena Baerbock has sharply criticised Pope Francis's
call for Ukraine to negotiate with Moscow, saying she didn't
"understand" his stance. The pope sparked a furore at the
weekend after saying in an interview on Swiss television that
one should "have the courage to raise the white flag and
negotiate", two years into Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. "I
don't understand it," Baerbock said in a talk show on public
broadcaster ARD late Sunday. "I think some things you can only
understand if you see them for yourself," added Baerbock, who
has travelled to Kyiv several times since the start of the war.
When talking to children in Ukraine who are suffering because of
the war, she said, "I ask myself: Where is the pope? The pope
must know about these things." Baerbock said if Ukraine and its
allies "don't show strength now, there will be no peace".
(ANSA-AFP).
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