China and Brazil To Meet with Global South Nations on Ukraine-Russia Peace Plan

Sept. 26—Much to the chagrin of Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken, and the rest of the Global NATO crowd, Brazilian President Lula da Silva’s foreign policy adviser Celso Amorim and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will host a meeting on 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   Sept. 25 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.

In his speech opening the 79th UN General Assembly of the United Nations on Sept. 24, President Lula da Silva emphasized the importance of creating the conditions for taking up direct dialogue between Russia and Ukraine. “This is the message of the six-point understanding that China and Brazil offer so that a process of dialogue and an end to hostilities can begin,” he said. Zelenskyy went out of his way to attack the peace efforts of what he called the “Chinese-Brazilian duo” in his address to the UN General Assembly Sept. 25