An MP and member of the country’s delegation to the World Economic Forum in Davos told Sky News that Europe’s dependence on Russian oil and gas is causing the rape and murder of Ukrainian children.
Ivana Kylmpush-Tsintsadze, an MP and former minister, said Western countries and companies needed to end “business as usual” with Moscow, and called for increased supplies of first-class weapons. sanctions, the oil and gas embargo and tighter sanctions.
The MP is in Davos to deliver a direct message to political and business leaders as part of the largest diplomatic mission to Kyiv since the war.
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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy will speak at the conference by video link on Monday, when the annual meeting of business, political and civil society leaders convenes in person for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
“We are here to send a message from our country; the need to stand together and give up trying to do business as usual with the Russian Federation to protect everything we believe in.” , into prosperity, democracy, freedom,” she said. “They’re as important to business as they are to governments and citizens.”
Kylmpush-Tsintsadze said the supply of heavy weapons was the biggest “humanitarian” contribution the West could make and she would call on nations, including Germany, to boycott its gas and oil. Russia.
“I arrived in Davos via Berlin, it wasn’t an easy chat day, but I’m glad they at least have an oil embargo, which gives me a glimmer of hope that they’re looking into it. seriously a total gas embargo,” she said.
“We are seeing the consequences of decades of dependence on Russia without any thought given.
“If you are paying Russian companies for their oil and gas, you are giving them the resources to continue destroying our towns and villages, killing our children, raping our children. women, old people, babies and destroy our country.”
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German Chancellor Olaf Sholz will address the WEF at the weekend, one of 50 heads of state and heads of state among 2,500 delegates gathered in the Alps in the shadow of the security and economic crisis caused by Russian invasion.
Currently, no senior British ministers are scheduled to attend, with both Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng surreptitiously attending a meeting led by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and his colleagues. Dutch, Spanish and Greek prime ministers settled.
There will be no Russian presence. The oligarchs who once held the most lavish parties here are banned, as are Russian state-owned companies and organizations.
Ukraine will dominate discussions in the Hall of Parliament and on the sidelines of the conference, the conflict raising concerns about global energy prices and inflation, as well as raising concerns about food security. real.
The summit in the Swiss town is back up and running after a shutdown due to the pandemic. Photo: AP
Climate change will also be a nagging topic, having been pushed down the agenda since last year’s COP26 by the financial crisis and war, both of which have seen countries searching for solutions. Short-term fossil fuel alternatives for Russian energy sources.
Alok Sharma, still chair of COP26, will address the delegates and US climate envoy John Kerry will share the forum with his Chinese counterpart Xie Zhenhua, a symbolic act of presence. icon if nothing else.
Davos promises to be a slightly less lavish affair than in previous years, but there will still be fewer dissenting voices at a gathering that showcases the qualities of liberal capitalism.
With the external backdrop of security, economic and food crises intertwined and the COVID recovery faltering, there may be little time to consider how badly things have turned out. .
