Zelenskyy Rejects China-Brazil Efforts To Encourage Alternative Peace In Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy while at the United Nations/screenshot via Instagram @zelenskyy_official

JAKARTA - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy rejected China and Brazil's efforts to end Russia's war in Ukraine.

Zelenskiy questioned the reasons the two countries proposed alternatives to their own peace formula.

Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Nine months later Zelenskiy announced 10 points of the peace plan to end the war fairly under the UN Charter and international law. Moscow rejected the plan.

"The peace formula has been around for two years, and maybe someone wants a Nobel Prize for their political biography, for a frozen ceasefire, not a real peace, but the only gift Putin will give you in return is more suffering and disaster," Zelenskiy said at the UN General Assembly.

China is trying to invite developing countries to join the six-point peace plan it issued with Brazil in May.

Their proposal calls for an international peace conference "held at the right time and recognized by Russia and Ukraine, with equal participation from all parties as well as fair discussions on all peace plans."

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva supported the plan when he addressed the General Assembly on Tuesday, September 24.

"Any parallel or alternative effort to seek peace, in fact, is an attempt to achieve calm, instead of ending the war," Zelenskiy told the 193-member assembly.

"When China-Brazil tries to grow into a choir that says something alternative besides full and fair peace, the question that arises, what is the real interest? Everyone has to understand, you will not increase your strength at the expense of Ukraine," he said.