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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jennifer Rankin in Brussels

Key global powers fail to sign up to Ukraine peace summit communique

Volodymyr Zelenskiy holds his hands up, palms forward, as she speaks to attenders of a summit. A blue and yellow Ukrainian flag is behind him.
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, welcomed what he called ‘the first steps toward peace’. Photograph: Alessandro Della Valle/Reuters

Key regional powers including Brazil, India, South Africa and Saudi Arabia have failed to sign up to a joint communique issued at the end of a Ukraine peace conference in which more than 80 countries and international organisations endorsed its territorial integrity in the face of Russia’s invasion.

Speaking at the end of the two-day summit in Switzerland, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, welcomed the “first steps toward peace” but acknowledged that not all attenders had come onboard. “Unfortunately there are people who are still balancing,” he said, adding that Russia was trying to divide the world.

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