WION on the Ukrainian Peace Summit: Conclusions
Earlier today I had the pleasure of discussing in a live broadcast on WION, India’s premier English language global broadcaster, the results of the Ukrainian Peace Summit which was held in a Swiss resort over this past weekend, 15-16 June. Was it a success or a failure? For whom? How are we to understand the decision not to invite Russia to the event when Russia is one of the two warring sides? These were among the issues in our chat.
A lot is being said even in our mainstream media about how the Summit fell short of expectations. Indeed, that is a virtually unavoidable conclusion given that only three of the ten points in Zelensky’s peace plan got approval of the gathering, and even the closing statement with this much reduced consensus was not signed by India, Mexico, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and other consequential participants. The populations represented by those who did sign, and did not later cancel their signatures, as several did, came to well less than half of the world’s total.
Little is being said about how Russia views the outcome of the Summit and that is what I tried to address in the several minutes that I was given the microphone.
See: Ukraine Peace Summit: Western aid not enough to win war says Zelensky | WON