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Al Jazeera Staff

Ukraine peace summit: Why some countries refused to sign the plan

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses a closing press conference of the Summit on Peace in Ukraine in Stansstad, Switzerland [Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP]

About 100 delegations from countries and international organisations attended the Switzerland-hosted Summit on Peace in Ukraine last weekend, aimed at crafting a path that many participants said could pave the way to ending Russia’s war on its smaller neighbour.

But while a vast majority of participants signed on to the short communique issued at the end of the summit, several key nations did not. The two-day diplomatic summit took place in the Burgenstock resort in Stansstad, Switzerland, and was attended by United States Vice President Kamala Harris alongside leaders from the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan, and diplomats from many other nations.

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