(Dan Tri) – China believes that the sooner negotiations take place, the sooner peace will be established in Ukraine.
Russian and Ukrainian delegations negotiate in Türkiye in 2022 (Photo: Sputnik).
The South China Morning Post (SCMP) newspaper on March 8, citing knowledgeable sources, said that China and Switzerland are making efforts behind the scenes to invite Russia to participate in negotiations hosted by Switzerland to
Last month, Switzerland announced plans to hold a peace summit `in the summer`, but has not yet announced a specific date.
According to SCMP, China’s special envoy to the Eurasian region Li Hui told European Union (EU) officials that this summit should not `come up with a plan to crush Russia.`
SCMP reported that Chinese special envoy Li also told his EU counterparts that Moscow had two prerequisites for negotiations, including ending Western arms supplies to Ukraine and canceling the decree.
China has built close ties with Russia and has neither condemned the war against Ukraine nor joined international sanctions against Moscow.
Although Beijing has not publicly provided direct military support to Russia, Western intelligence believes that China has provided Russia with large quantities of goods with potential military uses.
The European Union and the United States have repeatedly called on China to use its influence over Moscow to end its invasion of Ukraine.
`The sooner negotiations start, the sooner peace will come,` Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told reporters on the sidelines of China’s parliamentary session in Beijing this week.
In February 2023, China proposed a 12-point roadmap towards the peaceful resolution of the conflict in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky emphasized that the solution to the current conflict can only be based on the 10-point `peace formula` he announced at the end of 2022.
The main points in Mr. Zelensky’s peace plan include restoring the territorial integrity of Ukraine, Russia must withdraw all troops, ensuring energy security, food and nuclear safety, paying compensation, as well as
Russia rejected President Zelensky’s terms as unrealistic, saying that Moscow would never make concessions to Crimea, a region annexed to Russia in 2014, or four regions of Ukraine annexed to Russia in 2022.
Russia’s ambassador to Switzerland told local media in January that a peace summit without Russia’s participation `will definitely fail`.
