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Zelenskyy invites Biden and Xi to Switzerland for conference

Monday, 27 May 2024 06:30

More than 70 countries and organisations have agreed to attend the Ukraine Peace Conference due to take place in canton Nidwalden in June, according to press reports.

The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has issued a personal plea to the US president Joe Biden and the Chinese leader Xi Jinping to make the journey.

He says only global unity will be able to bring peace.

A statement on the Russian Foreign Ministry website, says the meeting’s agenda has nine out of ten points from the Ukrainian side and so is doomed to failure.

The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs says the idea of the conference is to put forward many different peace plans.

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