Beijing, February 21 Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang said on Tuesday that China “will continue to play a constructive role in the Ukraine crisis”, while asking that “the flame of war not be fanned”, reported the local press today.
At a security event hosted by the Foreign Ministry, Qin urged “certain countries” to “stop provoking that ‘today’s Ukraine is tomorrow’s Taiwan,'” the Global said. Times, quoted by the Global Times.
The Foreign Minister assured that China is “ready to engage in multilateral and bilateral cooperation with all countries”, while affirming that Beijing “will support the consensus that” nuclear war should not and cannot not be conducted “”.
China “rejects an arms race” and “encourages political solutions to burning issues”, the minister said.
During the event, a document was presented on the Global Security Initiative, a concept proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping in April 2022 and which includes among its objectives the respect for the territorial integrity of countries and the non -interference in their internal affairs, although some analysts have pointed out that this is a Chinese response to sanctions imposed by Western countries on Russia since the start of the war in Ukraine.
The initiative “supports a government structure led by the United Nations and its role in preventing wars and maintaining peace,” Qin said, adding that “security is the right of all countries, not the patent exclusive to a few”.
During his recent speech at the Munich Security Conference, the Director of the Office of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Foreign Affairs Commission, Wang Yi, reiterated that China will continue to make “efforts” to achieve peace in Ukraine and that his country has suggested that Kyiv and Moscow “sit together at a table” to achieve “a political solution” to the conflict.
Since the outbreak of war in Ukraine, China has maintained an ambiguous stance in which it has called for respect for “territorial integrity of all countries”, including Ukraine, and attention to “legitimate concerns of all countries”, in reference to Russia.
Wang Yi is due to visit Moscow this week, which marks a year since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and some Russian media assured on Monday that the official had already arrived in the Russian capital, an end not yet confirmed by the Chinese. foreign ministry. ECE
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