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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian.
China has turned its back on the conference on peace in Ukraine scheduled for mid-June in Switzerland, to which Russia was not invited. Beijing advocates the organization of a conference accepted by both kyiv and Moscow.
New setback for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who on May 26 again called on Xi Jinping and Joe Biden to join the conference on Ukraine organized in Switzerland in mid-June.
China, a permanent member of the Security Council, will not make the trip, clarified the spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “There is an obvious mismatch between the arrangements made for the conference on the one hand and China’s demands and the general expectations of the international community on the other, which makes it difficult for China to participate,” Mao said. Ning, during a press conference.
“China has always insisted that the International Peace Conference should be recognized by both Russia and Ukraine, allow equal participation of all parties and fair discussion of all peace plans,” insisted the spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Earlier, citing several sources, Reuters had claimed that Beijing had declined the invitation to visit Switzerland, highlighting the non-compliance with these exact same conditions.
“China said from the start that holding such summits without Russian participation had absolutely no future,” responded Russian presidential spokesperson Dmitri Peskov. “Seeking solutions to the Ukrainian conflict without Russian participation is completely illogical, without perspective and practically nothing more than a waste of time,” he said, stressing that the views of Moscow and Beijing on this subject are “completely identical”.
At the beginning of May, while visiting Paris, Chinese President Xi Jinping insisted on “the organization of an international peace conference recognized by Russia and Ukraine, bringing together all parties on an equal footing. equality and allowing for a fair discussion.
Since the announcement on April 10, by the Swiss government, of the organization of this conference to which it is not invited, Russia has denounced a “dead end”.
For his part, Sergei Lavrov denounced, on May 21, on the sidelines of a summit of heads of SCO diplomacy in Astana, the “almost hysterical” attitude with which Volodymyr Zelensky allegedly demanded support from foreign chancelleries to his formula for peace.
A ten-point formula, around which, Moscow believes, the conference in Switzerland will be structured. This includes in particular the reaffirmation of Ukraine’s borders dating from 1991, the total withdrawal of Russian troops, the establishment of an international criminal court to judge “Russian war crimes” and a declaration of the end of war.
Inconceivable demands according to Moscow, these being synonymous with total capitulation and hardly following the realities on the ground. “The meaning of this event is clear: bring together as many countries as possible, then declare that everything is agreed, then present this to Russia as a question already resolved, as an ultimatum” denounced on May 17, from the city of Harbin in the north-east of China, Vladimir Putin, reiterating that Russia remained ready to engage in negotiations as long as they took into account the realities on the ground.
The Russian president considered that it was important that “those who try to maintain their decision-making monopoly” do everything so that this process “is peaceful and without conflict”. “It must take into account all the opinions” of the international community, “be ready to make compromises when making complex decisions,” continued the Russian president, reassuring that the Russian-Chinese partnership is “directed against person”.
Concerning Washington’s sanctions, aimed at disrupting transactions between the two neighboring countries, Vladimir Putin notably considered that it was a “great stupidity” and a “huge error” on the part of the “political elites American. According to the Russian president, these unilateral measures by the United States undermine confidence in the dollar and gradually reduce the status of the dollar as a global settlement and reserve currency.