During his visit to China, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba discussed for more than three hours with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi ways to achieve a “just peace” in the war with Russia.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba visited China. Kuleba is the highest-ranking Ukrainian official to visit China since Russia’s February 2022 full-scale invasion, which Beijing has yet to publicly condemn. Kuleba’s negotiation with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi lasted more than three hours. The versions of the Chinese and Ukrainian sides about their results are quite different.
Willingness to negotiate
Kuleba, during the negotiations with Wang Yi, said that Ukraine and China are strategic as well as important economic and trade partners and emphasized that he “supports China’s position on the Taiwan issue and will follow the principle of a China,” the Chinese Foreign Ministry. said in a statement.
According to the department, the Ukrainian side “highly values the positive and constructive role played by China in promoting peace and maintaining international order,” “places great importance on the views of the Chinese side,” and “carefully studied” China and Brazil’s Six Point Consensus on a Political Settlement.”
“The Ukrainian side wants and is ready for dialogue and negotiations with the Russian side. Of course, the negotiations must be balanced and substantive, aimed at achieving a just and lasting peace,” the message said.
However, Reuters and Ukrainian media reported, citing a statement by the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, that Kuleba told the head of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Wang Yi, that Kyiv is ready for negotiations “on a certain stage” subject to Moscow’s readiness for “honest. negotiations,” which have not yet occurred.
“Dmitry Kuleba spoke about Ukraine’s consistent position, which is the readiness to conduct a negotiation process on the Russian side at a certain stage, when Russia is ready to negotiate in good faith, but noted that so far such readiness has not been observed on the Russian side,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement of Ukraine.
During the negotiations, Kuleba also said that a just peace in Ukraine is in China’s interest, especially, it promotes trade with Europe. He added that relations between Beijing and Kiev are worth developing, taking into account Ukraine’s future membership in the European Union, about which negotiations have already begun.
Weapons for Russia
President Vladimir Zelensky said China had confirmed to Kuleba that they would not supply arms to Russia. They also support the territorial integrity of Ukraine.
“There is a clear signal that China supports the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine. It also confirmed what Chinese leader Xi Jinping told me – that China will not supply arms to Russia. I expect a detailed report from the minister after returning to Ukraine,” said the Ukrainian president.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that although “the conditions and time” for peace negotiations between Ukraine and the Russian Federation are “not yet ripe,” the PRC supports all peace-promoting efforts and is ready play a role in a ceasefire and continuity. of dialogue. Wang Yi also noted that Russia’s war against Ukraine continues in its third year and remains “a risk of escalation and spread.”
US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said about Kuleba’s visit to China that Beijing should hear about the consequences of Russia’s aggression directly from Kyiv.
Source: korrespondent
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