By Enyichukwu Enemanna
President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday told the United Nations General Assembly that his country is strongly against efforts by China and Brazil to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, accusing the duo of proposing an alternative to his own peace formula, warning: “You will not boost your power at Ukraine’s expense.”
“The peace formula has already existed for two years, and maybe somebody wants a Nobel Prize for their political biography, for frozen truce, instead of real peace, but the only prizes Putin will give you in return are more suffering and disasters,” Zelensky told UNGA 79, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Heritage Times HT recalls that Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
Nine months later Zelensky announced a 10-point peace plan to bring a fair end to the war on the basis of the founding UN Charter and international law, a move Moscow rejected.
Zelensky said proposing “alternatives, half-hearted settlement plans, so-called sets of principles” would give Putin the political space to continue the war.
China has been trying to enlist developing nations to join the six-point peace plan it released with Brazil in May. The two nations, including Russia are members of BRICS bloc.
Their proposal calls for an international peace conference “held at a proper time that is recognized by both Russia and Ukraine, with equal participation of all parties as well as fair discussion of all peace plans.”
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva also advocated for the plan when he addressed the General Assembly on Tuesday.
“Any parallel or alternative attempts to seek peace are, in fact, efforts to achieve a lull instead of an end to the war,” Zelensky told the 193-member assembly.
“When the Chinese-Brazilian duo tries to grow into a choir of voices – with someone in Europe, with someone in Africa – saying something alternative to a full and just peace, the question arises, what is the true interest? Everyone must understand, you will not boost your power at Ukraine’s expense,” he said.
The Ukrainian President plans to present what he calls a “victory plan” to US President Joe Biden at the White House on Thursday.
