The peace summit on Ukraine, to which Russia was not invited, continued in the Swiss city of Burgenstock.
Swiss President Viola Amherd said that she expects the summit to take the first concrete steps towards peace, reports Al Jazeera Balkans.
On Saturday, before the start of the summit, she specified that only three points of the peace plan will be on the agenda of the summit: nuclear safety, food safety and humanitarian issues – prisoners of war and the return of Ukrainian children from Russia, Swiss RTS reported, reports Tanjug.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said at the summit that Ukraine will present Russia with concrete measures to achieve a peace solution at the second peace summit.
Zelensky said that Russia is not interested in peace and that the participants of the summit should decide together how to achieve peace “in a truly lasting way” and in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, Kyiv Independent reports.
The Vice President of the United States of America, Kamala Harris, stated that Russian President Vladimir Putin, who presented the conditions for negotiations on Friday, was not invited to peace talks, but, as she stated, to the surrender of Ukraine.
Harris said the US will continue to work to achieve a just and lasting peace, based on the principles of the United Nations Charter and the will of the people of Ukraine.
French President Emmanuel Macron stated that the war in Ukraine is a global problem, adding that the key topics of the conference around which it is important to gather all world leaders are “food security, nuclear security and humanitarian issues”, reports the 20minutes portal.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said that Putin is not interested in peace and has launched a diplomatic campaign against the summit in Switzerland.
Russia rejected the summit as a waste of time, and China is not participating in it either, which pointed out that the peace talks have no meaning if Russia and Ukraine do not participate in them.
Ninety countries and organizations have so far applied to participate in the peace summit in Ukraine, which Switzerland is holding from June 15 to 16.
Russia was not invited to the summit to be held in central Switzerland, but the government said in a statement that the meeting will aim to “jointly define a plan” on how to include Moscow and Kiev in the future peace process, reports Hina, referring to Reuters.
In January, Switzerland agreed to organize the summit at the request of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and tried to gather support among countries that have better relations with Moscow than the leading Western powers.
The host of the summit announced that the goal of the meeting will be to “jointly define a road map” on how to include Moscow and Kyiv in the future peace process.
