Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged a gathering of over 60 national security advisers on Saturday to make a global model out of his 10-point formula for peace with Russia.

The meeting, which was held behind closed doors in neutral Malta, will help gauge Ukraine and the West’s ability to drum up continued and broader support as the conflict in Israel dominates headlines, moving the focus from Kyiv.

Without Russia, which criticized Malta for hosting the talks after smaller ones this year in Jeddah and in Copenhagen, Zelenskiy said he longed for a day when human history “is the history of peace only.” International law and the United Nations Charter spelt out this aspiration, he said.

“But does the U.N. Charter work?” he asked in his address, shared on YouTube in English.

“Here, in Ukraine and in the Middle East and in African countries, the answer to this question is the cries of mothers burying their sons and daughters killed in wars, and the despair of children orphaned by wars.

“We can and must give a different answer. The world has seen too much blood.”

His 10-point peace plan includes calls for the restoration of Ukraine’s territorial integrity, withdrawal of Russian troops, protection of food and energy supplies, nuclear safety and the release of all prisoners.

Officials said they hoped for the outcome of the weekend’s gathering, partly in person, partly virtual, to be agreement to hold a global peace summit later this year.

Malta’s Foreign Minister Ian Borg said his country would continue to show its support to efforts for the restoration of Ukraine’s territorial integrity.

“Despite being a neutral country, we cannot condemn the injustices, atrocities and abuse of power in the region. We remain at the forefront of condemning this aggression,” Borg told delegates.

No official list of delegates to the talks was issued, but officials said they included representatives of European, South American, Arab, African and Asian countries. Zelenskiy said in his nightly address to the Ukrainian people that 66 states were represented.

A European Union official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said China, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates did not attend, unlike the August 5 meeting in Jeddah. Notable additions included Armenia, the Holy See and Mexico amongst others. Simon Mordue of the European Council and Bjorn Seibert of the European Commission represented the EU, the official said.

“Holding the meeting now and with an increasing global representation proves that restoration of just peace is important beyond Ukraine,” the official said, noting the importance of the timing, with Middle East violence escalating.

Co-chairs Ukraine and Malta issued a joint statement referring to the participants’ commitment to just and lasting peace based on the U.N. Charter and recalling the important work of the working groups focused on nuclear safety, humanitarian issues, and energy and food security, the official added.

The parties would take necessary preparatory steps for a possible peace summit in future with no exact date yet fixed, the official said.

Stellantis and the striking United Auto Workers union have reached a preliminary deal similar to the one struck earlier this week with Ford, the union said Saturday — allowing members to go back to work at grounded factories.

The tentative agreement, reached after 44 days of strike action that simultaneously targeted Detroit’s “Big Three” automakers, includes a 25 percent raise in base wages by 2028, the union said in a statement.

Cost of living adjustments will cumulatively raise the top wage by 33 percent, to over $42 an hour.

Like the Ford deal, any preliminary agreement with European auto giant Stellantis would need to be ratified via a vote from UAW members.

But in the meantime, striking Stellantis workers, like those at Ford, “will return to work while the agreement goes through the ratification process,” the UAW said.

The wage increase in the tentative agreement is lower than the 40 percent sought by UAW President Shawn Fain when the union launched the strike on September 15, in the first ever simultaneous stoppage at Ford, General Motors and Stellantis. 

However, it is far above the nine percent increase that Ford, for example, initially proposed in August.

President Joe Biden hailed the agreement.

“I applaud the UAW and Stellantis for coming together after hard fought, good faith negotiations to reach a historic agreement that will guarantee workers the pay, benefits, dignity and respect they deserve,” he said in a statement.

“Once again, we have achieved what just weeks ago we were told was impossible,” Fain said, adding that “we have begun to turn the tide in the war on the American working class.”

Some 5,000 jobs will be added by Stellantis over the course of the contract, Fain said, a turnaround from job cuts the automaker was pursuing before the negotiations.

After reaching the tentative agreement with Ford on Wednesday, the UAW had said it would encourage employees to return to their jobs at the plants it targeted with its strike, in order to put pressure on General Motors and Stellantis.

More than 45,000 workers were on strike prior to the Ford deal, as part of a strategy where the UAW has gradually ratcheted up the number of factories targeted by stoppages as it sought better terms.

GM now remains the only automaker without a tentative deal.

A strike was called at its factory in Arlington, Texas, earlier this week.

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