President of Portugal Rebelo de Sousa in South Africa

South Africa's leader welcomed Tuesday (June 6) his Portuguese counterpart.

Cyril Ramaphosa detailed during a press conference, the meeting he held the previous day with heads of states from Zambia, Senegal, the Republic of Congo, Uganda and Egypt.

The Presidents confirmed their availability to travel to Ukraine and Russia in mid June, according to the Sout African presidency.

"Yesterday we met and confirmed that we are now at a stage where we are going to visit Kiev and Moscow and our mission is a peace mission really, and we want to dub it as a road to peace," Ramaphos said.