Will deliver a rare international address as Ukraine’s first lady World The annual gathering of the Economic Forum in the snowy Swiss city of Davos is in full swing on Tuesday as part of a push by President Volodymyr Zelensky and his government to acquire more foreign arms to defend against Russian aggression.
Security crews turned out and snowplows cleared the streets as Ukraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska and hundreds of government officials, corporate giants, academics and activists from around the world descended on Davos for a traditional winter gathering in Europe’s highest city gave. The COVID-19 pandemic torpedoed the snow-covered event in the past two years, but a spring season event was held eight months ago.
Attendees in Davos are facing a global conflict including Russia’s war in Ukraine, which has killed thousands of civilians, displaced millions, and jolted food and fuel markets around the world. Symbolizes the frustration of how conflict and bloodshed still plague modern society.
Adding to the gloom are an economic downturn and a warming world, week-long talkfests of big ideas and backroom deal-making to prioritize such problems, but it’s never clear whether the Forum’s “state of the art” will improve. How concrete action emerges to help reach the ambition of World.”
In a commemoration of the planet’s fragility amid climate change, a giant lighted wall featuring colorful, AI-fictional art derived from real images of coral reefs was one of the dazzling innovations welcoming attendees, showing how Technology can immortalize images of natural beauty that may one day disappear.
Dozens of sessions on Tuesday featuring actor Idris Elba will take up issues as diverse as gender equality, the return of manufacturing, the green transition, efforts to end tuberculosis and the intersection of food, water and energy. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He will speak.
With a war on the same continent, on many anxious minds in Davos was the devastation from a Russian missile strike that fell on an apartment building in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro, in at least one of the deadliest single attacks in months. 40 people were killed.
During nearly a year of war, the Ukrainian people have reacted to such tragedies with indomitable defiance, anger and determination to fight back.
Zelenska’s speech came after telling CNN through an interpreter on Sunday that Ukrainian energy infrastructure and civilian areas have exploded in recent months despite Russia’s missile attacks, “we understand that going on for a year, We are able to last even longer.”
CEOs, global government officials and media headlines The high-level Ukrainian diplomatic push in Davos provides a new opportunity to enlist and ramp up the international support Ukrainians are demanding: weapons like tanks and anti-rocket defense even Russia as more pressure to further isolate and squeeze the U.S. economy.
France, Britain, the US and other nations are pledging to send increasingly powerful weapons to Ukraine, such as tanks or armored fighting vehicles.
The increased military aid came after pleas from Ukrainian leaders and notables. Zelenska asked Congress for more US air defense systems as she visited Washington for a week in July and met with US First Lady Jill Biden at the White House.
Zelensky, after traveling to Washington himself last month to bolster support for ukraine In his first known trip abroad since the invasion, Wednesday will be broadcast by video as a complement to a personal delegation of officials such as his wife and Digital Transformation Minister Mykhailo Fedorov and Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko. The latter seemed determined to keep business leaders from doing business with Russia.
“Stop trading with Russia: Every dollar sent to Russia is blood money,” he told reporters on Monday.
The Yale School of Management has compiled a list showing that nearly 1,000 companies have ceased operations in Russia, but some Western multinationals still operate there.
The Forum has blacklisted Russia — and will remain so for the foreseeable future.
Forum president Borge Brende, a former Norwegian foreign minister, said on Sunday: “We made it clear in the spring that it is now up to Russia.” “If they start following the UN Charter again, if they start following basic humanitarian law again, and don’t break international law, they will definitely come back.”
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