Mootu thrilled by invitation from Ukrainian president Zelenskyy to discuss food security

Landless People’s Movement (LPM) chief whip Utaara Mootu says she has been invited by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss global food security.

Mootu is currently attending the Munich Security Conference in Munich.

United States vice president JD Vance has at the event scolded Europe for “backtracking on free speech” in their respective jurisdictions.

Mootu could not share more on the invitation, saying it was confidential.

The meeting is meant to be an “off-the-record discussion hosted by the president of Ukraine, which aims to discuss how countries can adapt their immediate humanitarian food programmes, expand the sustainability of humanitarian food deliveries, and prevent food crises from being weaponised”, email correspondence to Mootu shows.

“Additionally, I engaged in insightful dialogues with Ng Eng Hen, Singapore’s minister of defence, on matters of defence and security,” Mootu says.

“Later in the day, I had the opportunity for a brief but meaningful conversation with Ivy Lim Swee Lian, the wife of Singapore’s minister of defence.

“Our discussion centred on Africa-Asia relations in health, exploring areas for collaboration and shared learning between the two regions,” she says.