2024-07-24 19:12:06
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba is visiting China, where the topic of ending Russia’s full-scale war has been high on the agenda.
“D. Kuleba reiterated… that (Kiev) is ready to include the Russian side in the negotiation process at a certain stage, when Russia is ready to negotiate honestly, but emphasized that at the moment such readiness is not visible from the Russian side,” according to the Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Ministry of the Ministry on July 24 in the message.
In response, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia “never gave up on negotiations,” adding that Kuleba’s statement “concurred with our position.”
“However, there are important details here that we do not yet know. Therefore, we have to wait for clarifications on this issue,” he explained.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin has said that as a condition of peace talks, Ukraine must fully withdraw from four partially occupied areas illegally annexed by Moscow by 2022. Kyiv rejected this demand.
For its part, the Kremlin rejected Ukraine’s main condition of the peace formula for the complete withdrawal of Russian forces.
D. Kuleba’s trip to China is the first since the beginning of the war. He and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi previously met in February. during the Munich Security Conference in Germany.
For its part, China maintains a neutral position in the Russia-Ukraine war, but at the same time strengthens economic ties with Moscow and supports the country against Western sanctions. It has also become Russia’s main source of dual-use goods that feed Russia’s defense industry.
Kiev has repeatedly appealed to China to use its influence with Moscow to help end the war, but these efforts have largely failed as the East Asian country did not participate in June. At the World Peace Summit held in Switzerland.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has rebuked China for an alleged attempt to sabotage the summit effort, prompting a rebuke from Beijing.
China has proposed its own alternative peace plan, which would have included a conference recognized by Kiev and Moscow.
Ambassador of Ukraine to Singapore Kateryna Zelenko in June. said that Kiev would consider participating if the negotiations were based on “the principles of the UN Charter and international law”.
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2024-07-24 19:12:06