Swiss President: Half of Global Peace Summit participants represent Global South

At least 90 countries will participate in the Global Peace Summit in Switzerland, and half of the delegations which represent the so-called "Global South" - Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.

This was stated by the President of Switzerland, Viola Amherd, who spoke at a press conference on Monday, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

"The conference will take place in Bürgenstock next weekend. To date, 90 countries have registered, half of them from Europe and North America, the other half from Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. The fact that so many countries are participating with high-level delegations, shows that Switzerland's initiative was properly evaluated," she said.

According to Amherd, the conference in Bürgenstock is intended to "initiate a broad process aimed at establishing a lasting and sustainable peace in Ukraine and thus create conditions for a future peace summit with Russia’s participation." "This will be possible only if countries work together. The coming weekend will be devoted to finding a common denominator between the countries toward these efforts and achieving concrete progress in individual cases," she added.

The President of Switzerland emphasized that the participants in the Peace Summit seek to find ways to achieve "comprehensive, just, and lasting peace for Ukraine based on international law in accordance with the UN Charter."

"We want to develop a common understanding of possible frameworks to achieve this goal. And we want to jointly draw a road map of how both sides can be involved in the future peace process. The conference will focus on topics of global interest. These are nuclear security, food security, and humanitarian aspects," she said.

As Ukrinform reported earlier, the Global Peace Summit will be held in Bürgenstock, Switzerland, on June 15-16. Heads of state and government from all continents are expected to take part.

The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba, said a hysterical atmosphere is reigning over Moscow as the Peace Summit nears because at stake is the Russian myth of dividing the world into Europe and America supporting Ukraine, and the rest of the world supporting Russia. According to the top diplomat, Ukraine together with its allies will prevail over Russia as most of the world supports the UN Charter and international law.

The Ukrainian Peace formula is a diplomatic mechanism offered by Kyiv to achieve a just end to the war unleashed by Russia.