JOHANNESBURG: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will visit South Africa next month, the African country’s presidency announced Friday.
“President Zelensky will be visiting South Africa on the 10th of April,” presidency spokesman Vincent Magwenya said.
The visit “is a continuation of ongoing engagements” on “an inclusive peace process” between Russia and Ukraine, he said.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa last week invited Zelensky on a state visit, after heavy criticism of moves by Russia and the United States to negotiate an end to the war through a process to which neither Ukraine nor its European allies were invited.
“South Africa remains committed to supporting the dialogue process between Russia and Ukraine,” Ramaphosa said in a post on X.
The two leaders have a “constructive engagement” and agree on “the urgent need for an inclusive peace process that involves all parties,” Ramaphosa said.
Zelensky thanked Ramaphosa for supporting “Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity” and said he hoped for peace this year.
“It is important that our countries share the same position: nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine,” Zelensky said on X last week.
Zelensky to visit South Africa on April 10: presidency
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Zelensky to visit South Africa on April 10: presidency
- South African President Cyril Ramaphosa last week invited Volodymyr Zelensky on a state visit
- Zelensky thanked Ramaphosa for supporting ‘Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity’
Indonesia says it will restore access to Musk’s Grok chatbot
- Grok has faced a global backlash after it emerged that its image creation feature allowed users to sexualize pictures of women and children using simple text prompts
JAKARTA: Indonesia will restore access to Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok after the billionaire’s social media platform X promised to comply with the country’s laws, a government official said on Sunday.
Grok has faced a global backlash after it emerged that its image creation feature allowed users to sexualize pictures of women and children using simple text prompts.
Malaysia and the Philippines followed Indonesia in temporarily blocking access to the tool, which is integrated into X, over concerns about AI-generated sexual deepfakes.
Alexander Sabar, a senior official in Indonesia’s Communication and Digital Ministry, said access was being restored “conditionally” after X Corp gave “a written commitment containing concrete steps for service improvement and prevention of misuse.”
Sabar said in a statement the ministry would continue to supervise and evaluate Grok and that it would take “corrective actions,” including another suspension, if violations were found.
xAI, the Musk-owned startup that developed the AI tool, did not respond immediately for comment.
However, it told the Philippines last month that it would modify Grok to suit the local market, including the “total exclusion of pornographic content, particularly child sexual abuse material.”
Malaysia also restored access to Grok after receiving similar promises from X that included “additional preventive and security measures.”
The EU said in late January it had opened an investigation into Grok’s sexualized deepfake images of women and minors.
Grok said in response it was restricting image generation and editing to paying subscribers.
