Statement by Professor Sydney Mufamadi, National Security Advisor of the Republic of South Africa, at the “High-Level Summit on Peace for Ukraine”, Switzerland, 15-16 June 2024
16 June 2024
We thank the Government of Switzerland for the invitation to participate in this dialogue on pathways towards a comprehensive, inclusive, just and lasting peace in Ukraine and the region.
The countries that responded positively to the invitation to act as Ukraine’s sounding board, as it develops its peace formula, are meeting for the seventh time. We have agreed on key principles and done so consistently since our first meeting in Copenhagen.
South Africa has participated in this process in order to contribute to finding peace. We saw the two countries on a road that can only lead to mutual destruction, drawing countries of the world with it, including Africa, as collateral damage.
South Africa was not able to speak in the plenary sessions of this conference, hence this written statement outlining our position, given the importance of the Summit and especially in the current global context.