On September 16, in his speech for the anniversary of Mexican Independence, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced a peace plan for Russia and Ukraine. The proposal, he said, responds to the paralysis of the United Nations Organization (UN), which "remains inactive and as if erased," and proposed creating "a committee for dialogue and peace" that seeks "immediately the cessation of hostilities in Ukraine and the start of direct talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and Vladimir Putin of Russia."