The trip to China is not an easy one for the Ukrainian chief diplomat Kuleba. Anti-Western Beijing is expected to put more pressure on Moscow to end the Russian-Ukrainian war.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba wants to reach a rapprochement with China for a future peace conference during talks in Beijing lasting several days. “At the center of attention will be one issue: peace in Ukraine,” the chief diplomat emphasized in a video on Facebook. The talks are about finding common ground. Above all, competition between different peace plans should be avoided. “We must achieve a just and lasting peace, and China could play an important role in this,” the minister emphasized.
Kuleba stressed that this was his first visit to China since the Russian invasion in February 2022. It was also the first full-fledged visit by a Ukrainian foreign minister to the Middle Kingdom since 2012.
Ukraine has been defending itself against a Russian invasion for over two years. Kiev wants Beijing to play a stronger diplomatic role in ending the war. China has presented a peace plan with several points. It does not require a complete withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukrainian territory and is therefore significantly different from a variant presented by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Russia controls almost a fifth of the neighboring country, including the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea.
Source: Stern
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