Hungary will join the China-Brazil Friends of Peace Initiative

Hungary will participate in the founding meeting of the Friends of Peace initiative in New York, which China and Brazil are setting to promote their plan to end the war in Ukraine. This is what Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó said, MTI reports on Friday, September 27.

“There is a large majority of countries that support peace, and Hungary is one of them. But some European countries are in this group,” he said.

Szijjártó said that countries in the Global South are “tired of paying the price for a war thousands of kilometers away,” and that “Western countries are only fueling the war and making decisions that making the situation worse.”

According to him, 15 countries have joined the initiative of China and Brazil, including Turkey, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Zambia and Kenya.

“The initiators of the meeting decided to invite three European states there – us, Hungary, France and Switzerland. The message of this meeting is that the result of the war in Ukraine will not be achieved on the battlefield ended by of negotiations, and the sooner they start, the more lives can be saved, the less the threat of escalation and new destruction,” said the head of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry.

Let’s remember that China, Brazil and some other countries of the Global South agreed to create the “Friends of Peace” platform, within the framework of which they plan to promote the peaceful resolution of the “crisis in Ukraine.” We are talking about a six-point plan that China and Brazil announced at the end of May.

President Vladimir Zelensky criticized from the UN rostrum the “peace plans” advanced by China and Brazil.