BEIJING
China on Monday reiterated its “support” for all “efforts conducive” to a peaceful settlement of the Ukraine crisis after US President Donald Trump said that “significant progress” was made toward ending the Russia-Ukraine war.
Beijing hopes “all parties will reach a fair, lasting and binding peace agreement through dialogue and negotiations at an early date,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian told a news conference in the Chinese capital.
Trump hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday and said: “We covered somebody would say 95%. I don’t know what percent, but we have made a lot of progress on ending that war, which is really certainly the most deadly war since World War Two, probably the biggest war since World War Two.”
The US president said the remaining parts of the peace plan could be agreed on in “a few weeks” if work goes “really well.”
Ahead of his trip to the US, the Ukrainian president had said a new package of sanctions would target the Russian military-industrial complex, which includes individuals from China as well.
Beijing had urged Zelenskyy against such “wrongdoings.”
The ongoing Russia-Ukraine war has killed, wounded, and displaced millions since February 2022.
Along with Brazil, China has launched the “Group of Friends of Peace” to promote a political solution to the Ukrainian crisis.
Separately, Lin hailed Russia’s “consistent and firm support” for China’s position on Taiwan.
The Taiwan “question is China’s internal affair; the one-China principle represents a broad consensus of the international community and a basic norm governing international relations, and China’s resolve to safeguard its national sovereignty and territorial integrity is unwavering,” Lin said.
