Major Ukraine summit ends with fresh plea for peace but key powers spurn final agreement

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India, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates all did not agree to sign the joint statement signed by 80 others.

has concluded with key powers spurning a joint communique agreed to by more than 80 other countries and international organisations.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told journalists at a news conference alongside the leaders of the European Union, Ghana, Canada, Chile and Switzerland that it was "important that all participants of this summit support this Ukraine's territorial integrity because there is will be no lasting peace without territorial integrity".

Among the high-level dignitaries in attendance were the leaders of Argentina, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Ursula Von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, left, walks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Summit on Peace in Ukraine, in Obbürgen, Switzerland, Sunday, June 16, 2024.

On Friday, the day before the summit was set to kick off, Russian President Vladimir Putin restated the Kremlin's own peace plan, which calls for Ukrainian troops withdraw from four southern and eastern regions of Ukrainian territory that Moscow said it would annex in violation of international law and demands Kyiv abandon its bid to join NATO.View Gallery

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