By South China Morning Post | Created at 2025-03-20 23:26:37 | Updated at 2025-03-21 16:23:46
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China and Brazil on Thursday voiced support for a US-led initiative to broker a ceasefire in Ukraine, urging Kyiv and Moscow to engage in negotiations to achieve that goal.
Their endorsement came after a meeting at the United Nations headquarters in New York. The two countries co-chaired the meeting with delegations from their initiative seeking peace in Ukraine and launched in December.
Brazil’s UN ambassador, Sergio Danese, said after the meeting that recent developments around Ukraine suggested the war might be shifting “from the battlefield to the negotiating table”, calling it a “potential turning point” for advancing towards a ceasefire.
“From the very beginning, we have consistently advocated for an early peaceful resolution and the need to observe principles for de-escalation,” said Fu Cong, China’s ambassador to the UN.
“We firmly believe that only a negotiated political solution, including inclusive diplomacy, can bring this conflict to an end.”
Delegates from Algeria, Bolivia, Colombia, Egypt, Hungary, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey and Zambia also took part in Thursday’s meeting.
