29.03.2023
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called Xi Jinping in an interview with the Associated Press on Tuesday, expressing his desire to talk to him in Ukraine. A spokesman for China’s foreign ministry said in response that it had no information to provide. A Kremlin spokesman said Russia had no right to make suggestions on whether Xi Jinping should visit Ukraine.
(Voice of Deutsche Welle Chinese Network) According to the Associated Press, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accepted an exclusive interview with the Associated Press on a train bound for Kiev on Tuesday (March 28) and addressed Chinese President Xi Jinping, Said that he would like to meet him in Ukraine and talk to him. “We’re ready to see him here. I want to talk to him. I had contact with him before total war. But not in over a year,” Zelinsky said.
At the regular press conference of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs on March 29, a reporter asked a question. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky recently said that he is willing to meet with Chinese state leaders in Ukraine. What is China’s comment. Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning said that on the Ukrainian issue, China maintains communication with relevant parties including Ukraine. I have no information to provide regarding the specific issue you mentioned.
On March 23, Mikhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the chief of the Ukrainian President’s Office, revealed that preparations for arranging a telephone conversation between Zelensky and Xi Jinping were underway.
According to Reuters, when asked on March 29 whether the meeting between Xi Jinping and Zelensky would help resolve the conflict in Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, “We appreciate China’s balanced stance, and we Takes it very seriously and believes that Chinese leaders have their own decisions about the appropriateness of certain engagements. We have no right to make any recommendations here.”
What has been the response to China’s diplomatic engagement?
Last week, Xi Jinping paid a three-day state visit to Russia. At the end of the visit, China and Russia issued a joint statement referring to the document “China’s Position on the Political Solution to the Ukraine Crisis”. The Chinese document contains 12 points and calls for “ceasefire, cessation of war and start of peace talks”.
In response to the document, the U.S. said a ceasefire would now allow Russia to hold onto the Ukrainian territory it had seized and give its forces time to regroup.
Ukraine welcomed China’s diplomatic engagement, but Zelensky said he would consider a peaceful solution only after Russian troops withdrew from Ukrainian territory.
Although China and Russia reaffirmed their adherence to, upholding and strengthening the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in their joint statement on March 22, just days after Xi Jinping concluded his visit to Russia, Putin announced that he would deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus.
In an interview with the Associated Press on March 28, Zelensky said he believed Putin’s move was to distract attention from the lack of assurances he had received from China. “What does that mean? It means that the visit is not good for Russia,” Zelenskiy speculated.
(Associated Press, etc.)
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