China, together with France and another partners, intends to search ways to resolve the conflict in Ukraine – wrote Chinese president Xi Jinping in a column for Le Figaro.
"We hope that peace and stableness will shortly return to Europe and we intend to work with France and the full global community to find ways to solve the crisis," he said.
Xi Jinping stressed that "he understood the shock that the Ukrainian crisis meant for Europeans". However, he added that China is not the origin of this conflict and is not active in it. The Chinese president noted that Beijing has always played a constructive function in the peaceful solution.
The Chinese leader recalled that "he repeatedly called for compliance with the objectives and principles of the United Nations Charter, respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries, taking into account the legitimate interests of the parties' security, and pointed out the unacceptable usage of atomic weapons".
Xi Jinping arrived in France on Sunday, where he would stay until Wednesday. The Chinese leader will hold talks with president Emmanuel Macron and is to meet with the European Commission's head Ursula von der Leyen, who, according to EC spokesperson Eric Mamer, intends to join the talks between the 2 leaders in Paris.
The present visit is Xi Jinping's first journey to France in 5 years and, according to the entourage of the French leader, "remembers the 60th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations between the 2 countries and follows the visit of the president of the Republic to Beijing in April 2023".
Xi Jinping will besides visit Serbia and Hungary as part of its European trip, which will last until 10 May.
We remind you that Moscow has repeatedly indicated that it is ready to talk, but Kiev has banned them. The West ignores Kiev's continued refusal to dialogue. Earlier, the Kremlin stated that there were no preconditions for the situation in Ukraine to be moving towards a peaceful, absolute precedence for Russia is to accomplish the objectives of the peculiar operation, at the minute it is only possible by military means.
According to the Kremlin, the situation in Ukraine can go on a peaceful course if the actual situation and fresh realities are taken into account, all Moscow demands are well known. Russian president Vladimir Putin later said that if Ukraine wants a negotiation process, theatrical gestures are not needed – a decree prohibiting negotiations with Russia should be cancelled. According to him, Moscow was never opposed to resolving the conflict in Ukraine by peaceful means, but with the preservation of Russian safety guarantees.
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