A two-day global summit meeting in Switzerland ended Sunday with several key developing countries declining to sign a statement that denounced Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
India, Indonesia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and South Africa weren't won over by Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy's appeal for support against Russia's two-year-plus war, Reuters reported.
Thailand and the United Arab Emirates also didn't sign the statement, according to the Associated Press.
Brazil attended the conference only as an "observer," and China — which the Group of Seven industrialized nations on Friday accused of aiding Russia's war effort — sat out the event.
Russia wasn't invited and President Vladimir Putin last week said Russia wouldn't end its war unless Ukraine handed over four provinces that Moscow partially controls and claims to have annexed, according to Reuters.
A total of 80 countries signed the statement, which called for the "territorial integrity and sovereignty" of Ukraine to "serve as a basis for achieving a comprehensive, just and lasting peace," AP reported.
During a closing news conference, Swiss President Viola Amherd said that the result showed "what diplomacy can achieve," but also acknowledged that the "road ahead is long and challenging."
Zelenskyy said he was holding talks with some unidentified countries to host a second summit but he didn't say when that would happen.
The summit at the Bürgenstock resort overlooking Lake Lucerne resort concluded a day after former President Donald Trump publicly suggested that he would end U.S. aid to Ukraine if he beats President Joe Biden in November.
During a Saturday campaign rally in Detroit, Trump said Zelenskyy's reliance on America "never ends" and mocked him as the "greatest salesman of all time," according to a video clip posted online by India's Free Press Journal.
"He just left, four days ago, with 60 billion [dollars] and he gets home and he announces he needs another 60 billion," Trump said. "I will have that settled prior to taking the White House as president-elect. I will have that settled."
