Berlin, March 2. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Thursday called on China not to hand over arms to Russia and to use its influence on Moscow to end the war in Ukraine, which should be relied on for a possible peace agreement. which is not dictated to the Kiev authorities.
“Don’t hand over any weapons to the Russian aggressor,” Scholz said in an official statement to the Bundestag (German parliament’s lower house) about China, calling on him to use his influence over Moscow to put pressure on the withdrawal from Russia. Ukrainian troops.
Scholz insisted in his speech that a peace agreement will not be possible if it “goes over the heads of Ukrainian men and women”.
The foreign minister warned that “if Ukraine stopped defending itself, there would be no peace, but rather the end of Ukraine”. And he added: “A peace dictated against the will of the victims is not only evoked for moral reasons. But also because we consider the well-being of our country and the security of Europe and the world.
Scholz opposed a disruption of the world peace order and insisted that lasting peace in Ukraine “requires the repair of international law, respect for our peace system”. He added that Russian President Vladimir Putin had broken these rules and violated the United Nations Charter.
Regarding China, Scholz welcomed that its leaders have shown themselves against the use of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, and called on Beijing to share its “ideas” on peace in Ukraine “with the main parties concerned, with the Ukrainians and with President (Volodimir) Zelensky”.
And he was upset that China did not express at the recent meeting of G20 finance ministers a “clear condemnation of the Russian attack”. EFE
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