LAST week, the Ukraine peace summit was held in Switzerland which some 90 countries, including South Africa, attended. It was the seventh such summit since the first was held in Copenhagen in 2022.
The most consistent feature of the summit has been the deliberate exclusion of Russia at every gathering, wherever it was hosted.
The majority of participants at the Ukraine peace summits are Western countries, mostly in the EU and the US-led Nato, who have already clubbed together in a relentless onslaught aimed at isolating Moscow globally.
The decisions that are taken at the EU and Nato are in sync with the resolutions adopted by
