- The President of Ukraine spoke at the Davos Forum.
- He demanded a complete exit of foreign companies still operating in Russia and called for NATO to send unrestricted military aid to Ukraine.
- The Davos Forum is the most important international meeting of CEOs, executives, company presidents, government envoys and lobbyists in the world.
The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, was present at the Davos Forum and demanded that the multinationals definitively leave Russia.
The head of the Ukrainian Executive Branch also called for sanctions on Russian crude oil and a “total blockade” of banking operations in the country led by Vladimir Putin.
He also asked the member countries of NATO to send “unrestricted military aid”.
In his videoconference speech at the Davos Forum, Zelensky, told the companies still remaining in Russia a “total withdrawal”, offering them to be part of the reconstruction of Ukraine.
The Ukrainian president also requested that the economic pressure on Moscow be further consolidated, with what he described as “convincing sanctions” on the sale of Russian oil and the blocking of all transfers to and from banking entities “without exception”.
As for multinational companies, demanded “full withdrawal” from the Russian market.
To convince them, he told them that Ukraine is a market of 40 million people in a country that will be in search of its reconstruction, so it will be a market eager for foreign investment.
The World Economic Forum in Davosin Switzerland, is the international forum of CEOs, executives, company presidents, government envoys and the world’s most important lobbyists.
In that scenario, Zelensky called for a stop to the Russian advance and said that its population inspired a unity throughout the world that is unprecedented in the democratic world.
What is debated in Davos, the Forum in which Zelensky spoke
The Davos summit is discussing, among other issues, the short- and medium-term perspective of the world energy sector in a context of war.
This, after the short of Russian natural gas to several European countries, in addition to the projected brake on the acquisition of oil from Moscow.
Likewise, consensus is being sought to advance in the stabilization of the global economy, hit by the pandemic and now by the war in Eastern Europe.
The goal is to avoid a food crisis while not hindering progress on environmental damage and climate change.
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