Peace Initiatives on Ukraine: The Barely Audible Rustle of Peace

... officials and their comments. All of them were proposed by so-called neutral countries like China, Brazil, African states and Indonesia, that is by the countries that are not directly involved in the Ukrainian conflict and think of themselves as unbiased ... ... peacemaker and asserting the country’s great-power ambitions. Africa’s “sandpit” of ideas In June 2023, President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa unexpectedly came forward with his peace plan. On June 16, a group of African representatives from ...