Switzerland's foreign affairs ministry on Saturday voiced support for a Chinese-led peace plan to end the Ukraine war, saying its view on such efforts had significantly changed.

China and Brazil on Friday pressed ahead with an effort to gather developing countries behind a plan to end Russia's war in Ukraine, despite Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's dismissal of the initiative as serving Moscow's interests.

Switzerland supports the “peace initiative” of China and Brazil to resolve the war in Ukraine. This is despite the fact that it does not refer to the UN Charter and does not explicitly mention the territorial integrity of Ukraine,

Beijing's top diplomat voices hope for convening global peace conference with 'fair discussion' of all proposals as US stays sceptical China and Brazil on Friday sought to advance their long-standing bid to mediate peace between Russia and Ukraine on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly,