its president Ukrainian, Vladimir Zelenskyproposed today to hold a world peace conference this winter in a video message that Kyiv hoped would be broadcast before its finale. world Cup what is happening at this time.

CNN reported on Friday that Zelenskiy had asked FIFA to let him deliver a message of peace ahead of the final.

“We offered the world a type of peace. Absolutely fair. We proposed this because there are no winners in a war, there can be no draw,” Zelensky said in a message released by his office.

“I am announcing an initiative to organize a World Peace Type Conference this winter. A conference that will unite all the peoples of the world around the cause of world peace. “The stands of the stadiums are empty after the match, and the cities are empty after the war,” Zelensky said.

The Ukrainian president was eager to speak via videoconference ahead of today’s World Cup final at the Lusail Stadium in Doha, where Argentina will play France. CNN estimates that hundreds of millions of viewers around the world will watch the match.

FIFA did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

Adviser to the President of Ukraine Mykhailo Podolyak tweeted that FIFA “demonstrates a lack of understanding of the destruction that the Russian Federation is causing the world by unleashing a war in Ukraine.”

^{Source: APE-MEB, Reuters}