Much to the chagrin of Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken, and others of their ilk, Brazilian President Lula da Silva’s foreign policy adviser Celso Amorim and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will host a meeting on Friday, Sept. 27 at the UN with representatives of 20 nations of the Global South to discuss the two nations’ May 23, 2024 six-point peace proposal for Ukraine and Russia. Lula spoke with President Vladimir Putin by phone about it last week, Reuters reported today. Among those attending will be Colombia, Egypt, Indonesia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates, among others. The U.S. and European nations are not invited.
According to Brasil do Fato today, the six-point program, which Zelenskyy calls “destructive,” emphasizes that the Russian-Ukrainian conflict can only be resolved through dialogue and negotiation. It calls for vastly increased humanitarian assistance and rejects the use of weapons of mass destruction, nuclear and chemical or biological weapons. It rejects attacks on nuclear power plants or other nuclear facilities used for peaceful purposes, as well as the division of the world into isolated political or economic groups. It also calls for holding an international peace conference and exchange of prisoners.
