South Africa, together with the United Arab Emirates, has offered to host the Inter-Parliamentary Union facilitated peace talks between Ukraine and Russia in an effort to find a 'negotiated settlement' to end Russia's invasion of Ukraine. | gerbjan
A woman places food on the grave of her son in Kharkiv, Ukraine, earlier this month. Photo: Getty Images
In February last year, South Africa's BRICS partner Russia invaded its neighbouring, sovereign state of Ukraine. Mapisa-Nqakula is a member of the IPU Task Force which met for the eighth time since its establishment. The IPU Task Force was established following a resolution of the IPU’s 144th Assembly held in Nusa Dua, Indonesia, last year to optimise parliamentary diplomacy as a contribution of global parliamentarians to finding a peaceful resolution of the war in Ukraine by engaging parliamentarians of the warring countries – Russia and Ukraine.
At the IPU assembly in March last year in Bali, Indonesia, Mapisa-Nqakula toed the party line, refusing to condemn Russia as the aggressor and saying it would be"wrong" to blame only one country for Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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